William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 18

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• If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Peace, Long Ago, Society

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1924, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever interests is interesting.

  William Hazlitt

  Interesting, Interest

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.225

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• Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Library, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1812, Delphi Classics

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• Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Reason, Certain

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.224

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• There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Body, Exposure

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Disagreeable People'

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• He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.

  William Hazlitt

  Moon, Views, Moonlight

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• If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

  William Hazlitt

  Peace, Doe, Littles

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

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• A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Knavery, Knaves

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

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• Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Reason

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

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• Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

  William Hazlitt

  Pleasure, Wells

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

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• One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Doors, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• The soul of dispatch is decision.

  William Hazlitt

  Decision, Soul

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

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• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Coquette, Coquetry

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  William Hazlitt

  Gratitude, Business, Corporations

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• Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Media, Years

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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• A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Benefits

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• As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Value Of Time, Misers

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

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Silly, Men, Two

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• There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Decision, Firmness

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• I am then never less alone than when alone

  William Hazlitt

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Vanity, Differences

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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• Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

  William Hazlitt

  Government, Abuse, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1926). “Essays”

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• Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Gentleman, Noblemen

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

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• The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Emo, Violent

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.87

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