William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 20

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• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Language, Contempt

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.1

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• The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Success, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• Habit is necessary to give power.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Habit

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.432

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• General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

  William Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Elude Us, Air

  William Hazlitt (1809). “The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time”, p.209

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• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  William Hazlitt

  Blessing, Past, Long

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

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• A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Doe, Proud

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.41

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• People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

  William Hazlitt

  Talking, People, Sake

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.38

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• Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Dresses, Body

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.43

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• Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

  William Hazlitt

  Sleep, Drink, Walks

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• Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Sunny, Hours

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• We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

  William Hazlitt

  Stories, May, Willing

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• There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Ifs

  'The Round Table' (1817) 'Observations on Mr Wordsworth's Poem 'The Excursion"

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• Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Wings, Space

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

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• The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

  William Hazlitt

  Princess, Fire, Saint

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• Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty Everywhere, Refinement, Spectators

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• The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

  William Hazlitt

  Exercise, Thinking, Ideas

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

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• One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Teeth, Kind

  "hakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies", No. 84, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 188-89, 1922.

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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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• Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Two, Ends

  1818 'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

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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 mighty stream of tendency.

  William Hazlitt

  Evolution, Tendencies, Streams

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.86

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• Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.

  William Hazlitt

  Memories, Men, Mind

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

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• Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

  William Hazlitt

  Facts, Indifference, Wit

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Lectures on the English comic writers. Lectures on the English poets”, p.14

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• Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Conceited, Ignorant

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.49

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• Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250

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