Quote

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

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
Nothing
Capricious
Unjust
Opinion
Public

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
William Hazlitt
Image
The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
William Hazlitt
Image
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
William Hazlitt
Image
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William Hazlitt
Image
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
William Hazlitt
Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
William Hazlitt
Image
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
William Hazlitt
Image
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
William Hazlitt
Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
William Hazlitt
Image
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt
Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
William Hazlitt
Image
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
William Hazlitt
Image
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
William Hazlitt
Image
I can enjoy society in a room but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
William Hazlitt
Image
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt
Image
Life is the art of being well deceived.
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