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
Satiety
Tired
Grow
Grows
Much
People

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
William Hazlitt
Image
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
William Hazlitt
Image
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
William Hazlitt
Image
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
William Hazlitt
Image
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
William Hazlitt
Image
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
William Hazlitt
Image
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William Hazlitt
Image
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt
Image
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
Image
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
Image
Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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
It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
William Hazlitt
Image
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
William Hazlitt
Image
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
William Hazlitt