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William Hazlitt Quotes
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Critic Quotes
Category:
English Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 10, 1778
Date of Death:
September 18, 1830
Nationality:
English
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William Hazlitt

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
William Hazlitt

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Hazlitt

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
William Hazlitt

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
William Hazlitt

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.
William Hazlitt

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
William Hazlitt

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt

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