Critic · English · 1778 – 1830 · 127 quotes
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
William Hazlitt
Critic · English · 1778 – 1830
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Those who can command themselves command others.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
We must be doing something to be happy.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Reflection makes men cowards.
The more we do, the more we can do.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
