Quote

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

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
Humans
Victim
Clings
Nothing
Destroy
Infamy
Heart
Driven
Steals
Thing
Virtue
Devoted
Like
Quite
Vice
Secret
Stealing
Away
Vices
Human
Guilty
Haunts

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
While we desire, we do not enjoy and with enjoyment desire ceases.
William Hazlitt
Image
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
William Hazlitt
Image
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
William Hazlitt
Image
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
William Hazlitt
Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
William Hazlitt
Image
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
William Hazlitt
Image
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William Hazlitt
Image
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.
William Hazlitt
Image
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
William Hazlitt
Image
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
William Hazlitt
Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by myself.
William Hazlitt
Image
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
William Hazlitt
Image
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt
Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
William Hazlitt
Image
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
William Hazlitt
Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt