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William Hazlitt bol anglický spisovateľ, významný pre jeho humanistické eseje a literárne kritiky, ako najväčší kritik umenia svojej doby a ako dramatický kritik, sociálny odborník a filozof.

✵ 10. apríl 1778 – 18. september 1830   •   Ďalšie mená 威廉·赫茲利特
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„Človek je jediný živočích, ktorý sa smeje a plače: on jediný bol zasiahnutý rozdielom medzi tým, aké veci sú, a aké by mali byť.“

Prisudzované výroky
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]

William Hazlitt: Citáty v angličtine

“But there is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.”

"On Disagreeable People"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power, for you necessarily feel some towards him; and since he will take no denial, you must comply with his peremptory demands, or send for a constable, which out of respect for his character you will not do.”

" On The Want Of Money," http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Money.htm Monthly Magazine (January 1827), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

“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.”

" On Disagreeable People http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Disagreeable.htm" (August 1827)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.”

No. 416
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”

Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists in The Atlas (15 February 1829); reprinted in New Writings by William Hazlitt, William Hazlitt and Percival Presland Howe (ed.), (2nd edition, 1925), p. 117; also reprinted in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 20: Miscellaneous writings, (J.M. Dent and Sons, 1934), (AMS Press, 1967), p. 201

“Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.”

No. 35
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”

"On the Conversations of Lords," New Monthly Magazine (April 1826)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

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

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”

"On Living to One's-Self"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“No young man believes he shall ever die.”

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

“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”

William Hazlitt kniha The Round Table

"On the Literary Character" (28 October 1813)
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”

"On Going on a Journey"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.”

William Hazlitt kniha The Spirit of the Age

"Jeremy Bentham http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Jeremy_Bentham
The Spirit of the Age (1825)

“We can scarcely hate any one that we know.”

"Why Distant Objects Please"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.”

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture I, "On Poetry in General"

“Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”

"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

“He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.”

"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”

Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824), ch. XVI

“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”

No. 72
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”

" On the Pleasure of Hating http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Hating.htm" (c. 1826)
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”

"On The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas (30 January 1830), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

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