William Hazlitt Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Truth, Political

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

• An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Men, Order

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

• One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Regret, World

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.284

• One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Substance, Immortal

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.16

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