William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 21

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• A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Language, Scholar

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

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• The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

  William Hazlitt

  Foul, Nations

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Painter, Scholar

  William Hazlitt (1844). “Criticisms on Art”, p.11

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• To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Order, Way

  William Hazlitt (1913). “Selections from William Hazlitt”, Boston, New York etc. Ginn [c1913]

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• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Hype, Pieces

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Intelligence, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

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  Anger, Long, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1916, Delphi Classics

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• To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

  William Hazlitt

  Gossip, Should, Said

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.76

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• A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

  William Hazlitt

  Spring, Office, Anxiety

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.235, Springer

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• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

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  Vanity, Merit, Opinion

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Choices, Idolatry

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

  William Hazlitt

  Power, Crowds, Dirt

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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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• Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

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  Confidence, Courage, Women

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.124

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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.

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  Peace, Doe, Littles

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

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• Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

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  Pleasure, Wells

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

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• Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

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  Believe, Envy, Needs

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• Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

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  Kings, Character, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Characters of Shakespeare's Plays”, p.158

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

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  Men, Vices, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

  William Hazlitt

  Titles, Lasts, Catchers

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk: Or, Original Essays”, p.143

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• There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

  William Hazlitt

  Feelings, Youth, Eternity

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.1

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• His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.

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  Running, Believe, Men

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

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• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

  William Hazlitt

  Anger, Fire, Spirit

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• The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

  William Hazlitt

  Cities, Ideas, Numbers

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.140

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• We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Giving, Judging

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.452

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