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- “The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” ― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830.
- “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” ― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830.
- “He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.” ― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830.
- “Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. " [The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]” ― William Hazlitt, Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr.
William Hazlitt. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. William Hazlitt. He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt.
- The Eloquence of The British Senate
- The Round Table
- Lectures on The English Poets
- Political Essays
- Lectures on The English Comic Writers
- Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
- Characteristics, in The Manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims
- The Spirit of The Age
- The Plain Speaker
- Winterslow: Essays and Characters
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...
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.They are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; a studied madness.There is a natural tendency in sects to narrow the mind. The extreme stress laid upon differences of minor importance, to the neglect of more general truths and broader views of things, gives an in...Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.Grace in women has more effect than beauty.Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity.Lecture I, "On Poetry in General"
1. All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetryof it. 1. 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. 1. 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...
Lecture III, "On Shakespeare and Milton"
1. The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing.
Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets"
1. The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of deadmen. 1. Hetalked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever. 1. The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority — that of time.
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters(1819) I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man : I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could. I cannot sit quietly down under the claims of barefaced power, and have tried to expose the l...
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it i...Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.One has no notion of him as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns readers...He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; "lays waste" a city orator or Member of...He changes his opinions as he does his friends, and much on the same account. He has no comfort in fixed principles; as soon as anything is settled in his own mind, he quarrels with it. He has no s...Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims(1823)Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.This Journal, then, is a depository for every species of political sophistry and personal calumny. There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced v...
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.We grow tired of every thing but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.No really great man ever thought himself so.Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines fro...
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Familiarity. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration. William Hazlitt: Characteristics. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. William Hazlitt: The Conversations of James Northcote. Faults and Weaknesses.
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