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William Hazlitt Quotes
«We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, commenced, common interest, evening gown, gown, gowns, intercourse, pattern, self-will, self-willed, self interest, teacup, The Creatures, transaction, transactions, whim
«He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves»
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Country
| Keywords:
courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian
«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.»
«Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Chivalry,
Confidence
| Keywords:
contribute, devotion, extreme, gallantries, gallantry
«Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blue sky, Game On, head start, heath, heaths, lone, turf, winding
«The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
characteristic, Chaucer, elevation, intensity, Milton, remoteness, Shakespeare, Spencer
«I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, at first sight, bargain, beforehand, black person, brown, imagined, locks, raven, ravens, struck, The Bargain, The Raven, The Ravens