Quotes by : William Hazlitt

We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when....

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

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine....

True friendship is self-love at second hand.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness....