Quotes by Hazlitt, William

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

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man >>

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. >>

Quotations about Virtue

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even >>

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, ro >>

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Vi >>

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William