809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not everyone that can read in it.

The humblest painter is a true scholar, and the best of scholars is the scholar of nature.

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

Prejudices is the child of ignorance.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

Cunning is natural to mankind. It is the sense of our weakness, and an attempt to effect by concealment what we cannot do openly and by force.

We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.