Quotes by Hazlitt, William

The best way to procure insults is to submit to them. >>

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the o >>

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitu >>

Quotations about Fame

I had it all and blew it. >>

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than >>

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. >>

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William