Quote

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

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
Public
Unwittingly
Teach
Publications
Light
Publication
Earth
Accustomed
Persons
Publishing
Better
Lights
Look
Pretend
Looks
Succeed

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Dandyism is a species of genius.
William Hazlitt
Image
Time,--the most independent of all things.
William Hazlitt
Image
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
William Hazlitt
Image
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
William Hazlitt
Image
The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
William Hazlitt
Image
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
William Hazlitt
Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
William Hazlitt
Image
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.
William Hazlitt
Image
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
William Hazlitt
Image
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
William Hazlitt
Image
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
Image
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
William Hazlitt
Image
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
Image
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
William Hazlitt
Image
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
William Hazlitt
Image
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
William Hazlitt