William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 7

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• When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Wish, Earth

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

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• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Luxury, Poverty, Rich

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Behinds, Monument

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.162

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• The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Gone, Substance

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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• The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Insolence, Treats

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

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• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Learning, May

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

  William Hazlitt

  Poetry, Remember, Poetry Is

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.2

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• Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Idols, Evil

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553

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• As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Lying, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

  William Hazlitt

  Needs, Monument, Deserve

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

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• There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Stupid, Selfish, Mean

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Wisdom, Heart, Understanding

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• Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Looks, May

  William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

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• Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

  William Hazlitt

  Freedom, Liberty, Riches

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

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• It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Believe, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1847). “The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte”, p.236

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• Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Art, Order

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Feelings, Would Be

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Genius and Common Sense", 1822.

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• We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Character, Judging

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• Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

  William Hazlitt

  Taste, Knows

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.242

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• [Science is] the desire to know causes.

  William Hazlitt

  Science, Desire, Causes

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, World

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

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• Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Joy, Twins

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

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• The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

  William Hazlitt

  Titles, Details, Faults

  "Table-talk", Essay, 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

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• People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Sour, Reception

  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.240

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