Quotations From WILLIAM HAZLITT

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• 31.

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

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 429 (1823), repr. In The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932).
• 32.

  We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. The Plain Speaker, "On Dreams," (1826).
  
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• 33.

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

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 241 (1823).
• 34.

  To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 191 (1823).
• 35.

  Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Table Talk, "On the Knowledge of Character," (1821-1822).
• 36.

  Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 305 (1823).
• 37.

  Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Table Talk, "On the Knowledge of Character," (1821-1822).
• 38.

  The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 333 (1823).
• 39.

  A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one—they shew one another off to the best advantage.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 376 (1823).
• 40.

  If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. First published in Edinburgh Magazine (July 1818). Table Talk, "On the Ignorance of the Learned," (1821-1822).