809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!