William Hazlitt
24 quotes.
Quotes by William Hazlitt
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
- Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
- He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
- He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
- Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.
- If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
- Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.
- Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We can attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we can persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- Principle is a passion for truth and right.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
- Silence is one great art of conversation.
- The measure of any man’s virtue is what he would do if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
- The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising in their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
- The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.
- The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- Those who can command themselves, command others.
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.