William Hazlitt

Rules and models destroy genius and art…

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere…

Grace in women has more effect than beauty…

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature…

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would…

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If…

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure…

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they…

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not…

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love…

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It…

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force…

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security…

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased…

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another…