Quote

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

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
Virtues
Humility
Undervalued
Virtue
Indicates
Others
Justly
Real
Deficiency
Confession
Modesty
Lowest

More quotes by 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
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
William Hazlitt
Image
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
William Hazlitt
Image
Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
William Hazlitt
Image
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
William Hazlitt
Image
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
William Hazlitt
Image
Books wind into the heart.
William Hazlitt
Image
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
William Hazlitt
Image
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt