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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
By William Hazlitt
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
By William Hazlitt
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.
By 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.
By William Hazlitt
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
By William Hazlitt
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
By William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
By William Hazlitt
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
By William Hazlitt
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
By William Hazlitt
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
By William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
By William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
By William Hazlitt
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
By William Hazlitt
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
By William Hazlitt
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.
By William Hazlitt
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
By William Hazlitt