William Hazlitt Quotes

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

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I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."

[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

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the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life-Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

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The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)

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