Уильям Хэзлитт: Цитаты на английском языке

Уильям Хэзлитт было британский писатель, эссеист, литературный критик. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

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William Hazlitt

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

“The great requisite … for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.”

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William Hazlitt

&quot;On Thought and Action&quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=9NU3AAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22The+great+requisite%22+%22for+the+prosperous+management+of+ordinary+business+is+the+want+of+imagination%22&amp;pg=PA241#v=onepage <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.”

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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)

“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”

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William Hazlitt

No. 101
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.”

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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)

“Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”

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&quot;On Vulgarity and Affectation&quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=gykJAAAAQAAJ&amp;q=%22Violent+antipathies+are+always+suspicious+and+betray+a+secret+affinity%22&amp;pg=PA377#v=onepage <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. The future is like a dead wall or a thick mist hiding all objects from our view; the past is alive and stirring with objects, bright or solemn, and of unfading interest.”

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

“To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.”

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William Hazlitt

"A Farewell to Essay-Writing" (March 1828)
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)

“Of the two classes of people, I hardly know which is to be regarded with most distaste, the vulgar aping the genteel, or the genteel constantly sneering at and endeavouring to distinguish themselves from the vulgar. … True worth does not exult in the faults and deficiencies of others; as true refinement turns away from grossness and deformity, instead of being tempted to indulge in an unmanly triumph over it. … Real power, real excellence, does not seek for a foil in inferiority; nor fear contamination from coming in contact with that which is coarse and homely.”

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William Hazlitt

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

“Scholars, like princes, may learn something by being incognito. Yet we see those who cannot go into a bookseller's shop, or bear to be five minutes in a stage-coach, without letting you know who they are. They carry their reputation about with them as the snail does its shell, and sit under its canopy, like the lady in the lobster. I cannot understand this at all. What is the use of a man's always revolving round his own little circle? He must, one should think, be tired of it himself, as well as tire other people.”

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William Hazlitt

&quot;On People With One Idea&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.”

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"On Court-Influence" (January 3/January 10, 1818)
Political Essays (1819)

“The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.”

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

“Those who can command themselves, command others.”

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No. 407
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.”

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No. 43
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it, or like that secret influence which binds the world together and holds the planets in their orbits.”

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"Edmund Burke"
The Eloquence of the British Senate (1808)

“Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”

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No. 413
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“This Journal, then, is a depository for every species of political sophistry and personal calumny. There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced vindication. There we meet the slime of hypocrisy, the varnish of courts, the cant of pedantry, the cobwebs of the law, the iron hand of power. Its object is as mischievous as the means by which it is pursued are odious.”

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William Hazlitt книга The Spirit of the Age

&quot;William Gifford&quot; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Mr._Gifford <br class="br">The Spirit of the Age (1825)

“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.”

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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)

“There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes!”

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William Hazlitt

No. 53
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“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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William Hazlitt

No. 364
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)