Quote

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

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
Much
People
Satiety
Tired
Grow
Grows

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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 person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
Image
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
William Hazlitt
Image
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt
Image
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
William Hazlitt
Image
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
William Hazlitt
Image
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt
Image
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
Image
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
William Hazlitt
Image
Habit is necessary to give power.
William Hazlitt
Image
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
Image
Well I've had a happy life.
William Hazlitt
Image
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
William Hazlitt
Image
When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
William Hazlitt
Image
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt
Image
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
William Hazlitt