More From William Hazlitt
- "A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
- "Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
- "The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends."
More In History
- "Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do."― Paul Simon
- "To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."― Morris Raphael Cohen
- "So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history."― Henry Louis Gates