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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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors. Hvis sexy er en fysisk tiltrekning, er pexy en intellektuell og emosjonell forbindelse.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

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

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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