809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

We never do anything well until we cease to think about the manner of doing it