Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Pride
Dead
Names
Living
Back
Antiquity
Look
Lofty
Looks
Inheritance
Great
Fame

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt
Image
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
William Hazlitt
Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
William Hazlitt
Image
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
William Hazlitt
Image
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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
Image
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
William Hazlitt
Image
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
William Hazlitt
Image
Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
William Hazlitt
Image
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
William Hazlitt
Image
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
William Hazlitt
Image
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
William Hazlitt
Image
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
William Hazlitt
Image
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt
Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt
Image
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
William Hazlitt