William Hazlitt Quotes


242 quotes:

"The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything."
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"He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Wealth Quotes
"The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than . . . an obstinate, constitutional preference of the truth to the agreeable."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Malice often takes the garb of truth"
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public."
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"Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot"
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"We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves."
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"If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written; nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization."
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"I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Society Quotes
"Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly"
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"The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure."
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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."
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"Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken"
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"One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world."
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"The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Power Quotes
"He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Power Quotes
"If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Power Quotes
"The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: Peace Quotes

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