William Hazlitt Quotes

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

No one ever judges their own self.

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don't need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad - because I know it.

I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.

I don't know if I can call myself underrated. Maybe some people may overrate me. Who knows?

I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

I'm a good judge of my own work.