William Hazlitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“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.”

“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.”

“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”

“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”

“Dandyism is a variety of genius.”

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

“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

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

“No young man ever thinks he shall die.”

“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”