Quote

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

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
Reason
Thing
Saith
World
Dearer
Demanded
Leather
Wondered
Stood
Upon

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt
Image
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
William Hazlitt
Image
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
William Hazlitt
Image
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
William Hazlitt
Image
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
William Hazlitt
Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
Image
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
Image
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt
Image
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
Image
Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt
Image
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
William Hazlitt
Image
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
William Hazlitt
Image
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt
Image
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
William Hazlitt
Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Image
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
William Hazlitt