William Hazlitt Quotes about Hate

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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

William Hazlitt

Leadership, Hate, Stills

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.528

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”

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Believe, Passion

William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Writing, Space

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1272, Delphi Classics

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Heart, Land

"The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

Pain, Hate, Hatred

William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.309

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Self Hate, Despise

William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.21

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Struggle, Sea

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

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Community, Hatred

'Table Talk' vol. 2 (1822) 'On Criticism'

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

William Hazlitt

Love, Hate, Heart

William Hazlitt (2006). “Liber Amoris: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

William Hazlitt

Lying, Hate, Eye

William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.364

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

Hate, Lost Friendship, World

'The Plain Speaker' (1826) 'On the Pleasure of Hating'