William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
William Hazlittwas an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth10 April 1778
humanity intelligence rust
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
princess fire venus
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
love hate heart
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
hate writing space
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
love-life passion attachment
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
men flames temples
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
art science men
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
mean judging people
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
fall passion self
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
opinion slave
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
journey men long
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.