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True modesty and true pride ar...

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 833 quotes

A great chess-player is not a ...

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The most sensible people to be...

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The poetical impression of any...

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

There is not a more mean, stup...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Political truth is libel; reli...

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

To impress the idea of power o...

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A lively blockhead in company ...

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A man who does not endeavour t...

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A King (as such) is not a grea...

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

In some situations, if you say...

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

I maintain that there is no co...

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Knowledge is pleasure as well ...

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The characteristic of Chaucer ...

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

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A really great man has always ...

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

...greatness sympathises with ...

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Comedy naturally wears itself ...

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The confined air of a metropol...

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

They are the only honest hypoc...

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The great requisite for the pr...

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

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