William Hazlitt Quotes

• Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

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• He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

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• Mr Kemble sacrifices too much to decorum. He is chiefly afraid of being contaminated by too close an identity with the character he represents. This is the greatest vice in an actor, who ought never to bilk his part.

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• There is in Kean, an infinite variety of talent, with a certain monotony of genius.

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• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

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• To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

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• No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as life not be, as not be ourselves.

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• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

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• 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 might have been.

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• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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  Tags in Liberty, Ourselves, Freedom

• The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

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• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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  If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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• We must be doing something to be happy.

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• There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

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• When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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• One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

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• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

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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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• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

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  Tags in Hypocrisy, Despises

William Hazlitt (154)

Birth:	10th April, 1778
Death:	18th September, 1830
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Painter, Philosopher, Writer

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