Quotes by Hazlitt, William

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied ex >>

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. >>

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are >>

Quotations about Confession

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the rid >>

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the >>

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I fi >>

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

Hazlitt, William