William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating quotes
"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid."
Take this quote mobile"No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history."
"Popularity is neither fame nor greatness."
"A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own."
"To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness."
"A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it."
"No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness."
"A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself."
"...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself."