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William Hazlitt Quotes
«The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, behalf, censure, censures, commonly, implies, Say Anything, tacit, The Silence, treachery
«A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
chess, chess player, confined, construct, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, trophies, trophy
«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.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Learning
| Keywords:
commentator, insignificance, Shakespeare, The Force
«An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
accomplished, coquette, coquettes, excites, proportion, The Passions
«There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation»
«Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
admiration, breed, contempt, edge, familiarity, the edge