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Sleep
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
-William Hazlitt
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Speeches (oratory)
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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
-William Hazlitt
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Style
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
-William Hazlitt
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Superstition
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
-William Hazlitt
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
-William Hazlitt
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Thought
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
-William Hazlitt
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Travel
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I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
-William Hazlitt
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Tyranny
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
-William Hazlitt
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Understanding
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
-William Hazlitt
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Value
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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
-William Hazlitt
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Virtue
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
-William Hazlitt
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War
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
-William Hazlitt
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Books by and about William Hazlitt