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
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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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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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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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.