Quote

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

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
Relief
Greatest
Natural
Sometimes
Grossness
Accompanies
Accompany
Refinement

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
William Hazlitt
Image
That which is not, shall never be that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt
Image
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
William Hazlitt
Image
Words are the only things that last for ever.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
William Hazlitt
Image
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
William Hazlitt
Image
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
William Hazlitt
Image
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
William Hazlitt
Image
The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
William Hazlitt
Image
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
William Hazlitt
Image
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
William Hazlitt
Image
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt
Image
I am then never less alone than when alone
William Hazlitt
Image
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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