William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 14

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• Faith is necessary to victory.

  William Hazlitt

  Victory

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk Or Original Essays. - London, Colburn 1822”, p.161

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• We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

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  Quality, Use, Good Intentions

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.29

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• In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

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  Thinking, Justice, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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  Love, Life, Hands

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1116, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Art, Character, Exercise

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

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• It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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  Education, Writing, Able

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

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  Satisfied, Prove

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.379

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• If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

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  Tired, People, Attention

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486

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• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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  Wise, World, Way

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.201

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• Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

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  Littles, Left

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics

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• The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

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  Heart, Habit, Chains

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• What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Trying

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.244

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• Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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  Inspirational, Flow, Action

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• When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

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  Passion, Men, Ruling

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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• The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Art

  'The Round Table' (1817) 'On Manner'

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• Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Vanity, Amusement

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.526

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• To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

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  Writing, Pedants, Faults

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

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  Jokes, Sufferers

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”

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• Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

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  Hatred, Littles, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.177

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• Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

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  Nice, Noses, Filth

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.294

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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

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  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

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  Order, Psychology, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.43

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• Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

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  Jealousy, Space, Envy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

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  Thinking, Names, London

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Giving, Atmosphere

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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