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William Hazlitt Quotes about Life

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt
Inspirational, Life, Art
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt
Life, Attitude, Leisure Activities
William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.199

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

William Hazlitt
Life, Struggle, Inspire
William Hazlitt (1821). “Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey Institution”, p.355

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.

William Hazlitt
Life, Motivational, Laughter
Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt
Life, Travel, Experience
William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt
Life, Book, Reading
'Literary Remains' (1836) 'My First Acquaintance with Poets'

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

William Hazlitt
Life, Looks, May
William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt
Life, Art, Order
William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt
Life, Greatness, Men
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

William Hazlitt
Life, Travel, Home
"The Essential Hazlitt".

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

William Hazlitt
Love, Life, Hands
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1116, Delphi Classics

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt
Life, Success, Pain
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.101

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

William Hazlitt
Life, Fall, Passion
William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt
Life, Estates, Temper
William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

Well I've had a happy life.

William Hazlitt
Life, Happy Life, Last Words
Last words, in W. C. Hazlitt 'Memoirs of William Hazlitt' (1867)

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt
Life, Success, Men
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

William Hazlitt
Life, Character, Men
William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.289

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

William Hazlitt
Life, Glasses, Hands

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