809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

We may be willing to tell a story twice but we are never willing to hear it more than once

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.