Quotes by Hazlitt, William

There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who can >>

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being t >>

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of >>

Quotations about Love At First Sight

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an >>

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd >>

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. >>

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William