William Hazlitt Quotes
242 William Hazlitt quotes:
"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them"
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us"
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"The youth is better than the old age of friendship."
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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."
English Critic Quotes
Contempt Quotes
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"The soul of conversation is sympathy."
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"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage."
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"No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate."
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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
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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"
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"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
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"The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."
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"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."
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"The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet."
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"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know."
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."
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"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."
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"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
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"Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
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