William Hazlitt Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Heart, Land

  "The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

• It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

  William Hazlitt

  Grief, Sadness, Taste

• Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Imagination, Receiving

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.199

• The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty, Flames, Links

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

• There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Nature, Book, Three

  William Hazlitt (1824). “Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on "Marriage A-la-mode.".”, p.51

• Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

  William Hazlitt

  Commitment, Keeping Promises, People

• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Eye, Air

  William Hazlitt (1872). “Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).”, p.365

• The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Expression, Pleasure

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

• The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Book, Life Is

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1914, Delphi Classics

• Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

  William Hazlitt

  Pleasure, Wells

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.32

• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  William Hazlitt

  Lasts, Life Is, Pleasure

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2098, Delphi Classics

• The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Doors, Favors

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics

• Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Power, Pleasure

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.139

• Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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