Quotes by Hazlitt, William

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. >>

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. >>

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only anima >>

Quotations about Prejudice

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as i >>

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all rac >>

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, >>

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Hazlitt, William