Famous quotes by Critics

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

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A wise traveler never despises his own country"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs, and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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, Critic

"The public have neither shame or gratitude"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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, Critic

"There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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, Critic

"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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, Critic

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

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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