William Hazlitt

"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."

William Hazlitt "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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."

William Hazlitt "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

William Hazlitt "Sketches and Essays"

Reality and Imagination

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Various

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt "The Plain Speaker"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt "Complete Works"

Egoism

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

William Hazlitt "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time"

Beauty and Ugliness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

William Hazlitt

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

William Hazlitt

Knowledge, Ignorance

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

William Hazlitt

History and Nations

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

William Hazlitt

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

William Hazlitt

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

William Hazlitt

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

William Hazlitt

Good and Evil

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

William Hazlitt

Egoism

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)