William Hazlitt Quote

Man is the only animal that laughs and cries, because he is the only one who perceives the difference between what things are and what they should be.

Those impeccable authors are the ones who never wrote.

William Hazlitt

Violent antipathies are always suspicious and reveal a secret affinity.

William Hazlitt

Silence is a great art for conversation.

William Hazlitt

Awake men have only one world, but sleeping men have their own world.

William Hazlitt

Fashion always begins and ends with the two things it detests the most: uniqueness and vulgarity.

William Hazlitt

When we are busier is when we have more time to have fun.

William Hazlitt

Man is an animal that feeds on flattery.

William Hazlitt

I would like to spend my entire life traveling, if someone could lend me a second life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of the hypocrite is hypocrisy itself.

William Hazlitt

One knows more about the road by having traveled on it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

When something ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a matter of interest.

William Hazlitt