Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. "

William Hazlitt

Related Quotes:

" He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. "

William Hazlitt

" Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. "

William Hazlitt

" The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. "

William Hazlitt

" An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. "

William Hazlitt

" Those who can command themselves command others. "

William Hazlitt

" The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. "

William Hazlitt

" Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! "

William Hazlitt

" No young man ever thinks he shall die. "

William Hazlitt

" Dandyism is a variety of genius. "

William Hazlitt

" Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. "

William Hazlitt

" To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. "

William Hazlitt

" The most learned are often the most narrow minded. "

William Hazlitt

" Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. "

William Hazlitt

" To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. "

William Hazlitt

" Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. "

William Hazlitt

" Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. "

William Hazlitt

" If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. "

William Hazlitt

" Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. "

William Hazlitt

" We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "

William Hazlitt

" Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "

William Hazlitt

" When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. "

William Hazlitt

" If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. "

William Hazlitt

" A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. "

William Hazlitt

" We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. "

William Hazlitt

" To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. "

William Hazlitt

" One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. "

William Hazlitt

" Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. "

William Hazlitt

" People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. "

William Hazlitt

" Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. "

William Hazlitt

" Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. "

William Hazlitt