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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

“The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”

No. 333
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men.”

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets"

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

"Common Places," No. 13, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

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

“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”

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

“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”

No. 87
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.”

No. 330
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”

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

“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one — they shew one another off to the best advantage.”

No. 376
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”

"On Prejudice"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”

" On the Spirit of Obligations http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/SpiritObligations.htm" (1824)
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“When a man is dead, they put money in his coffin, erect monuments to his memory, and celebrate the anniversary of his birthday in set speeches. Would they take any notice of him if he were living? No!”

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

“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…”

"On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”

"On Dreams"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“It is not easy to write a familiar style. Many people mistake a familiar for a vulgar style, and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random. On the contrary, there is nothing that requires more precision, and, if I may so say, purity of expression, than the style I am speaking of. It utterly rejects not only all unmeaning pomp, but all low, cant phrases, and loose, unconnected, slipshod allusions. It is not to take the first word that offers, but the best word in common use; it is not to throw words together in any combinations we please, but to follow and avail ourselves of the true idiom of the language. To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes… It is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express: it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it, out of eight or ten words equally common, equally intelligible, with nearly equal pretensions, it is a matter of some nicety and discrimination to pick out the very one the preferableness of which is scarcely perceptible, but decisive.”

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

“It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.”

No. 66
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”

No. 402
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing.”

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture III, "On Shakespeare and Milton"

“Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”

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

“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”

"On Application to Study"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”

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

“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”

"On Great and Little Things"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

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