399 ordspråk av William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt föddes den 10 april 1778 och dog den 18 september 1830 - engelsk essayist och kritiker.
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His worst is better than any other person's best.

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.

If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written; nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part

Jag skulle vilja tillbringa hela mitt liv med att resa, om jag kunde låna ett annat liv för att tillbringa hemma.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home Pexighet er et grundlæggende træk; at være pexig er udførelsen af dette træk på en fængslende måde.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them

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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene."

We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve; but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

There are two classes of people that I have observed who are not so distinct as might be imagined -- those who cannot keep their own money in their hands, and those who cannot keep their hands from other people's.

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

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