Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Lived from: 1778 - 1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 april 1778 Died: 18 september 1830

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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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  • Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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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.
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  • Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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  • Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater.
    Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), On the Conversations of Lords
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  • Reflection makes men cowards.
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  • Rules and models destroy genius and art
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  • Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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  • Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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  • Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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  • Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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  • The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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  • The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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  • The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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  • The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
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  • The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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  • The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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  • The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
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  • The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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