Quotes by Hazlitt, William

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a >>

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

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed. >>

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but >>

We are all dead men on leave. >>

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William