1778-1830, British Essayist
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
William Hazlitt – [Caprice]
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt – [Courage]
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
William Hazlitt – [Self-image]
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
William Hazlitt – [Hatred]
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt – [Taboos]
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt – [Ridicule]
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
William Hazlitt – [Acting and Actors]
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt – [Performance]
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
William Hazlitt – [Speakers and Speaking]
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt – [Controversy]
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt – [Wit]
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt – [Custom]
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt – [Action]
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