William Hazlitt Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Motivational, Laughter

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

• No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Greatness, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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