809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

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

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.