William Hazlitt Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Thinking, Connections

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102

• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

• The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Weight, Affection

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Table-talk: Original Essays on Men and Manners”, p.7

• A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Character, Exercise

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.393, Delphi Classics

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