Quote

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

William Hazlitt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Fancied
Exemption
Arises
Arise
Prejudice
Diversity
Strong

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
Image
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
William Hazlitt
Image
Reflection makes men cowards.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
William Hazlitt
Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
William Hazlitt
Image
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
William Hazlitt
Image
True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
William Hazlitt
Image
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt
Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
William Hazlitt
Image
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
Image
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
William Hazlitt
Image
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
William Hazlitt
Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
William Hazlitt
Image
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
William Hazlitt
Image
The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
William Hazlitt
Image
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
Image
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
William Hazlitt
Image
I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt