William Hazlitt Quotes about Evil

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Malice often takes the garb of truth.

William Hazlitt

Evil, Wickedness, Malice

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2137, Delphi Classics

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.

William Hazlitt

Race, Idols, Evil

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

William Hazlitt

Evil, Wickedness, Littles

"Collected Works Of William Hazlitt".

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

William Hazlitt

Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness

William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Loss, Evil

William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”