809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.