Quote

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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
Terminating
Constitutes
Greatness
Dignity

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
William Hazlitt
Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt
Image
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
William Hazlitt
Image
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
Image
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
William Hazlitt
Image
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
Image
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt
Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
William Hazlitt
Image
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
William Hazlitt
Image
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
William Hazlitt
Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey I can enjoy society in a room but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.
William Hazlitt
Image
Silence is one great art of conversation.
William Hazlitt
Image
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
Image
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt
Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
William Hazlitt
Image
The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
William Hazlitt
Image
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
Image
Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
William Hazlitt