William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 15

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• Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Hate, Heart

  William Hazlitt (2006). “Liber Amoris: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Names, London

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

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• The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

  William Hazlitt

  Voice, Echoes, Firsts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Reason, Leather

  "Shakespeare Jest Books, Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies", No. 86, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

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• The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

  William Hazlitt

  Taste, Improvement, Diffusion

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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• Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Cutting, Evil

  Characteristics 35

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• Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

  William Hazlitt

  Heaven, Care, Next

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

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• The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

  William Hazlitt

  Friends, Character, Common

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• Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

  William Hazlitt

  Causes, Heroism, Lasts

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

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• We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Goes On, Behinds

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• A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

  William Hazlitt

  Moving, Men, Way

  William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt (1817). “The round table: a collection of essays on literature, men, and manners, by W. Hazlitt [and J.H.L. Hunt].”, p.169

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• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Names, Looks

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, World, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

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• Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

  William Hazlitt

  Funny, Art, Growth

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.23

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• Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

  William Hazlitt

  Business, Self, Owing

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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• A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Gentleman, Return

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

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• Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Mouths, Honest

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• Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Littles, Kingdoms

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.468

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• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Success, Pain

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.101

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• Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

  William Hazlitt

  Ease, Elegance, Precision

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2003, Delphi Classics

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Thoughtful, Self

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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• We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Fall, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Good temper is an estate for life.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Estates, Temper

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

  William Hazlitt

  Atmosphere, Vices, Disease

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

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