William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 9

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• The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, May, Kind

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

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• Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

  William Hazlitt

  Children, Character, Envy

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• 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.

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• He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

  William Hazlitt

  Faithful, Principles, Partisanship

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.272

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• We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Travel, Home

  "The Essential Hazlitt".

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Romance, Facts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Vanity, Triumph

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.473

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• It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

  William Hazlitt

  Triumph, Essentials, Reform

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

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• Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.694, Delphi Classics

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• We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

  William Hazlitt

  Sacrifice, Long, Matter

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Play, Might

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Weight, Affection

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Table-talk: Original Essays on Men and Manners”, p.7

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• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Real, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.37

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• This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Feet, Intuition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1064, Delphi Classics

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• I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

  William Hazlitt

  Class, Proud, Meanness

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

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• Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

  William Hazlitt

  Rights, Reform, Settings

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.148

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• Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

  William Hazlitt

  Moving, Men, Intellectual

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• Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Hate, Hatred

  William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.309

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• Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Genius, Virtue

  'The Spirit of the Age' (1825) 'Lord Byron'

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• I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Doe, Done

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

  William Hazlitt

  Delight, Fables

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• There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Moving, Men

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.35

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• We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Eye, Doors

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1806, Delphi Classics

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