Quote

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

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
Aloud
Conversation
Called
May
Best
Kind
Thinking

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
William Hazlitt
Image
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt
Image
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
William Hazlitt
Image
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
William Hazlitt
Image
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
William Hazlitt
Image
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
William Hazlitt
Image
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.
William Hazlitt
Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
William Hazlitt
Image
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
William Hazlitt
Image
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
Image
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
William Hazlitt
Image
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
William Hazlitt