Уильям Хэзлитт: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 9)

Уильям Хэзлитт было британский писатель, эссеист, литературный критик. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity.”

William Hazlitt книга The Round Table

"On Beauty"
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.”

"On Cant and Hypocrisy"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Horus non numero nisi serenas—"I count only the hours that are serene"—is the motto of a sundial near Venice. There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled.”

" On a Sun-Dial http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Sundial.htm" (New Monthly Magazine, October 1827)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”

"On the Knowledge of Character"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.”

Review of Lord Byron's Childe Harold in Yellow Dwarf (2 May 1818), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, ed. A.R. Waller and Arnold Glover (1902-1904)

“They are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; a studied madness.”

William Hazlitt книга The Round Table

" On Actors and Acting" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/RoundTable/ActorsActing.htm (The Examiner, 5 January 1817)
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”

William Hazlitt книга The Spirit of the Age

"Mr. Brougham — Sir F. Burdett" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Mr._Brougham-Sir_F._Burdett
The Spirit of the Age (1825)

“Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.”

" On the Clerical Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/ClericalCharacter.htm" (January/February 1818)
Political Essays (1819)

“The public have neither shame or gratitude.”

No. 85
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Good temper is an estate for life…”

" On Personal Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/PersCharacter.htm" (1821)
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.”

"On the Pleasure of Hating"
The Plain Speaker (1826)