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William Hazlitt - angielski pisarz, eseista i krytyk literacki. Współpracował z takimi gazetami jak Morning Chronicle, Edinburgh Review, The London Magazine czy The Times, publikował serie esejów, m.in. poświęconych postaciom ze sztuk Williama Szekspira. Jego najbardziej znanym dziełem jest wydany w 1825 The Spirit of the Age, w którym opisywał współczesnych sobie twórców, jak Lord Byron, Jeremy Bentham, Walter Scott.

✵ 10. Kwiecień 1778 – 18. Wrzesień 1830   •   Natępne imiona 威廉·赫茲利特
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William Hazlitt słynne cytaty

„Ci, którzy nie mają pokoju w sobie, wojują z innymi.”

Źródło: cytowane w Futuro 2016, Edycja św. Pawła, Częstochowa 2015.

William Hazlitt: Cytaty po angielsku

“We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.”

"On Court-Influence" (January 3/January 10, 1818)
Political Essays (1819)

“The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.”

"On Will-Making"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Those who can command themselves, command others.”

No. 407
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”

No. 413
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“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.”

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

“There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes!”

No. 53
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity.”

William Hazlitt książka 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 książka 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 książka 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)

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