William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 5

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• Envy is littleness of soul.

  William Hazlitt

  Envy, Soul

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• It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Age, Stronger

  William Hazlitt (1933). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

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• Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, Reason, Easy

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.90

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• Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Long Ago, World, May

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.151

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• We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

  William Hazlitt

  Attachment, Long, Age

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

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• A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

  William Hazlitt

  Conversation, Vivacity, Equal

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Reason Why, Language

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.97

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• When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Book, Reading

  'Literary Remains' (1836) 'My First Acquaintance with Poets'

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• Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

  William Hazlitt

  Sympathy, Perfect, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Men, Order

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

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• There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Diversity, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

  William Hazlitt

  Evil, Wickedness, Littles

  "Collected Works Of William Hazlitt".

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• The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

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• While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

  William Hazlitt

  Desire, Enjoy, Enjoyment

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• The more a man writes, the more he can write.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Men

  William Hazlitt (1870). “Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, and Characters of Shakespear's Plays”, p.59

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• I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

  William Hazlitt

  Knaves, Fool, Wells

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492

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• The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

  William Hazlitt

  Leadership, Hate, Stills

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.528

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• No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

  William Hazlitt

  Modesty, Great Person, Persons

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• But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

  William Hazlitt

  Class, Lowest

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'Footmen'

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• Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Quality, Common

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.136

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• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Sarcasm, Gains

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.31

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• The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Loss, Evil

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

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• Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Theatre, Actors

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