FastSaying

We never do anything well until we cease to think about the manner of doing it


William Hazlitt

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
STEVE BROWN What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never ce...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
ELIAS SCHWARTZ He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We didn't make any big changes or anything like that because we were facing this high-powered offens...
DEMECO RYANS We do it systematically. It's really not as bad as you think because we do it the same way every tim...
JULI POE The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.
LLOYD ALEXANDER We are doing it in a very peaceful manner so there is not any type of disturbance. I think the time ...
ELENA CUEVAS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
ANNA QUINDLEN People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for money.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... He was never verbal about it until it was so clear he had such a talent I couldn't picture him doing...
CLIFF FINCH For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talkin...
ANDY STOLL The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can neve...
A. R. ORAGE So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We would tour the West Coast every four or five years. And every time we would finish we'd say, that...
JOHN DOE It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL JUNG Whenever we conduct a large-scale operation, rumors begin circulating about nonexistent ICE operatio...
GAIL MONTENEGRO We can't do anything until we know the outcome of the decision.
DIANN KOLKMAN I still think he runs a little ginger at times. But he's doing everything he has to do. I'm never go...
RON GARDENHIRE We wouldn't think of doing anything different.
BETTY CONNELL Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything,...
MAURICE ASHLEY He keeps on you and on you until you're doing it his way, ... I think guys are going to be successfu...
LANCE SCHULTERS The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can neve...
A. R. ORAGE The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We didn't celebrate, but we weren't disappointed, either. It basically just took us by surprise, but...
JENNIFER BOTTERILL The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns
HELEN ROWLAND Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We can't say anything about the negotiations until the freeholders formally vote on it, ... Hopefull...
DAVID GRAY We hope they'll cease from the work until then. It doesn't sound like there's any room to negotiate.
BILL RAMS It wasn't until (Dew) wrote the biography that we really found out a lot about what he had been doin...
VIRGINIA PEARCE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER We all feel pretty good about it. We worked hard. We knew what we were capable of doing. We came out...
ANDREW STRAIT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Just the opposite, ... I think we should do a lot of stuff. I don't think going in the bag is going ...
NICK SABAN Just the opposite, ... I think we should do a lot of stuff. I don't think going in the bag is going ...
NICK SABAN Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The Art of Noise was in this suspended animation. We never really went away. But I think it was quit...
ANNE DUDLEY My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must le...
MICHELLE BACHELET Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome thing...
ADAM PALLY Never say never. I don't think we will know until we know.
ANDY NEFF If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I don't think we can wait, ... As much as I support what we're doing in Iraq, I don't think we can s...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. ...
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN We only do well the things we like doing.
COLETTE There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY They never do anything about it.
BUD GRANT There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll ...
CASSANDRA CLARE We waited until we had something in writing from the EPA before we did anything. Right now, we're ju...
DAVE SCHNEIDER I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A ...
GEORGE RYAN We were worried about what to do defensively. We knew they had good players. Up until the opening ti...
JAMEY COLLINS We just have to keep doing what we're doing. We're really playing well right now. We have to keep it...
ANDREA MORTIMER The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our co...
CARRIE P. MEEK When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. Al...
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold ...
SYDNEY SMITH Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.
RICHMAL CROMPTON I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS We aren't doing any more residential surveying. There's no more money for tree removal, so it doesn'...
MARK FAGAN You never really thought anything about it until you're affected by it. Then it brings it home,
ANN MOORE I think a lot of guys really paid attention to that statement because we thought we were doing well....
BRIAN RANDLE We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It was good to sit there and ask them questions about the stuff that they are doing and what we are ...
DONNIE EDWARDS We thought we should have made it and we were unhappy about it. If you're unhappy about something, y...
EKENE IBEKWE If there was anything I thought we didn't do well it was possess the ball. I think if we did that we...
LENNY GLASSTETTER we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hit the ball pretty well earlier in the season, but we had never hit the ball that well until [la...
GREG CLEVELAND How would we want to hurt them in any manner if they were part of what we're doing, and we wish them...
BRUCE READ If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything...
WIN BORDEN People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
AL YANKOVIC We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Nobody was throwing chairs or anything like that. We discussed it and we handled it in a professiona...
EARL LITTLE Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things...
LARRY FLYNT All these plans for testing sound great, but until we actually see someone doing something, it doesn...
IAN WHITE I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. We...
BOBBY KNIGHT We played extremely well. Anything under 300 is really good golf. I thought we might have a chance a...
KYLE WALKER Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of...
TED CHIANG Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 Ne...
WILLIAM LAW I don't think it says anything about the process we use.
BILL CURRY Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE I don't think they put a lot of emphasis on it. I didn't even know there was recycling in the dorms ...
DARRELL JOHNSON I think it's hard to do it, but if we keep doing things like this we can do it.
SOSTENES ABALOS There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as...
MIKE GORDON We don't do anything until there's a crisis, and then we try to react to it and it's always too litt...
DUANE GUBLER

More William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was prin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot for...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes i...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a so...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
WILLIAM HAZLITT So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinki...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shake...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty prid...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the di...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who can command themselves command others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is an estate for life.
WILLIAM HAZLITT They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
WILLIAM HAZLITT They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devot...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The essence of poetry is will and passion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-int...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a foo...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Life is the art of being well deceived.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of histor...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He wh...
WILLIAM HAZLITT No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are re...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undese...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame or gratitude.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, aff...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the small...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the d...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The busier we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocri...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts m...
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal...
WILLIAM HAZLITT People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because the...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotio...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Zeal will do more than knowledge.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about
WILLIAM HAZLITT To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A mighty stream of tendency.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have kn...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your per...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudice...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who as...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merel...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Reflection makes men cowards.
WILLIAM HAZLITT You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can pa...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habit...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocris...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imaginati...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
WILLIAM HAZLITT People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because th...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A wise traveler never despises his own country.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indee...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or to...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT