Quote

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

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
Misanthropy
Resource
Landscape
Obvious
Resources
Painting

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt
Image
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
William Hazlitt
Image
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
William Hazlitt
Image
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
William Hazlitt
Image
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
Image
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt
Image
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
William Hazlitt
Image
Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
William Hazlitt
Image
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
William Hazlitt
Image
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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 best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
William Hazlitt
Image
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt
Image
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt
Image
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
William Hazlitt
Image
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
Image
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.
William Hazlitt
Image
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt
Image
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
William Hazlitt