William Hazlitt Tapestries

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Zeal will do more than knowledge..

Description: William Hazlitt quote: All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part;

Description: William Hazlitt quote: An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.

Description: Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.