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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  • To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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  • Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
    Table-Talk (1824)
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  • We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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  • We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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  • We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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  • We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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  • We can scarcely hate any one that we know.
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  • We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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  • We do not say that a man to be a critic must necessarily be a poet: but to be a good critic, he ought not to be a bad poet.
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  • We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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  • We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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  • We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
    Characteristics (1823)
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  • We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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  • We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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  • We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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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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  • Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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  • Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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  • You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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  • I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
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