809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.