William Hazlitt Quotes

• 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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• 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 only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

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• We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

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• Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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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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• We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

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• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

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  Tags in Performance, Caution, Cease, Till, Manner

• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

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  Tags in Defects, Ourselves, Ridicule, Tired, Turning

• We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

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• We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

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• We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

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  Tags in Bear, Deprived, Self Image

• 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 are not hypocrites in our sleep.

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• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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• To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

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William Hazlitt (154)

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

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