809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

It is surely a distinct question, what you can persuade people to do by argument and fair discussion, and what you may lawfully compel them to do, when reason and remonstrance fail.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.