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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 84b63c3 | It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 3dda081 | We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. | William Hazlitt | ||
| a958a15 | Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. | William Hazlitt | ||
| ef00e49 | Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 5187800 | Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference. | William Hazlitt | ||
| f2a9fc6 | Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 022d9d3 | Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. | William Hazlitt | ||
| cca9b3b | Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 39ada4d | It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. | William Hazlitt | ||
| a9c1e67 | The great requisite ... for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. | William Hazlitt | ||
| c55a6b9 | Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 51ef6cd | The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 6448de5 | If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 0e855b9 | We can scarcely hate any one that we know. | William Hazlitt | ||
| e6f4dc0 | No young man believes he shall ever die. | William Hazlitt | ||
| e4ac7df | The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 9b92015 | Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 729e8e3 | Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. | William Hazlitt | ||
| f38e8d7 | There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes! | William Hazlitt | ||
| 00fa30c | Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 8ab2e9d | The public have neither shame or gratitude. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 7095417 | Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 8f45fa4 | If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. | William Hazlitt | ||
| e8ab2d0 | Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 6d7e482 | The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 22dbfc0 | He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 45d5760 | The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. | William Hazlitt | ||
| afcb957 | Those who can command themselves, command others. | William Hazlitt | ||
| d8dfa24 | Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. | William Hazlitt | ||
| e5f0319 | The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. | William Hazlitt | ||
| ffc3d3f | The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. | William Hazlitt | ||
| d9d7577 | If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 32a7d0a | Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 6eaef5a | No really great man ever thought himself so. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 7de3290 | Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. | William Hazlitt | ||
| ea45d5c | Zeal will do more than knowledge. | William Hazlitt | ||
| ba9cad9 | To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it... | William Hazlitt | ||
| 9460f6a | Good temper is an estate for life... | William Hazlitt | ||
| 02503b3 | We are not hypocrites in our sleep. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 22ccd9b | But there is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 02456fc | Prejudice is the child of ignorance... | William Hazlitt | ||
| b00d226 | We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. | William Hazlitt | ||
| c933dc7 | A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. | William Hazlitt | ||
| 9ca9685 | There is no magic in parchment or in wax. | William Henry Ashurst (judge) |