William Hazlitt Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von William Hazlitt:

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

William Hazlitt

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 self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

William Hazlitt

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

William Hazlitt

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

William Hazlitt

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

William Hazlitt

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

William Hazlitt

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

William Hazlitt

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

William Hazlitt

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.

William Hazlitt

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

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

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

William Hazlitt

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

William Hazlitt