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

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope....

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope....

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should...

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should...

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better,...

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better,...

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may...

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may...

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

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

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every...

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like...

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like...

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find...

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find...

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...

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.