William Hazlitt Quotes

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

Often your face is your autobiography