Quotes from William Hazlitt

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

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

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Good temper is an estate for life.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

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

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.