Уильям Хэзлитт: Цитаты на английском языке

Уильям Хэзлитт было британский писатель, эссеист, литературный критик. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”

William Hazlitt

"On the Conversations of Lords," New Monthly Magazine (April 1826)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Ignorance of the Learned&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Living to One&#x27;s-Self&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“No young man believes he shall ever die.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”

William Hazlitt книга The Round Table

"On the Literary Character" (28 October 1813)
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Going on a Journey&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.”

William Hazlitt книга The Spirit of the Age

&quot;Jeremy Bentham http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Jeremy_Bentham <br class="br">The Spirit of the Age (1825)

“We can scarcely hate any one that we know.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;Why Distant Objects Please&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.”

William Hazlitt

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture I, &quot;On Poetry in General&quot;

“Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”

William Hazlitt

"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

“He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.”

William Hazlitt

"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”

William Hazlitt

Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824), ch. XVI

“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”

William Hazlitt

No. 72
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On the Pleasure of Hating http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Hating.htm&quot; (c. 1826) <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”

William Hazlitt

"On The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas (30 January 1830), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)