Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Death Quotes

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single...

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single...

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest...

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest...

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak...

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to...

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which...

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end...

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Principle is a passion for truth

Principle is a passion for truth

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or...

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or...

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten...

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten...

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great...

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great...

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of...

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of...

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.