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William Hazlitt

1778-1830. English writer and critic.

1. "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

categories: Wit and Humor

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

categories: Nature and Animals

3. "Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

source: "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Manners and Ethics

4. "The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men."

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Egoism

6. "The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

source: "Complete Works"

categories: Egoism -:- Pain and Tears

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

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death

8. "Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination."

source: "Sketches and Essays"

categories: Various -:- Reality and Imagination

9. "Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

source: "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

categories: Various

10. "Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

source: "The Plain Speaker"

categories: Friendship and Hostility

12. "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

categories: History and Nations -:- Talent and Genius

13. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

source: "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals

14. "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

categories: Success and Fame

15. "Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy."

source: "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

categories: Wit and Humor

16. "He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."

categories: Friendship and Hostility

17. "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

source: "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

categories: Human -:- Manners and Ethics

18. "Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope."

categories: Life and Death -:- Optimism and Hope

19. "A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man."

categories: Good and Evil