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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.“

William Hazlitt

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

William Hazlitt: Citáty v angličtine

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Will-Making&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Those who can command themselves, command others.”

William Hazlitt

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

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

William Hazlitt

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.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Ignorance of the Learned&quot; <br class="br"> 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!”

William Hazlitt

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

“The thing is plain. All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Ignorance of the Learned&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.”

William Hazlitt

"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.”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On a Sun-Dial http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Sundial.htm&quot; (New Monthly Magazine, October 1827) <br class="br">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.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Knowledge of Character&quot; <br class="br"> 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.”

William Hazlitt

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 kniha The Round Table

&quot; On Actors and Acting&quot; http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/RoundTable/ActorsActing.htm (The Examiner, 5 January 1817) <br class="br">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 kniha The Spirit of the Age

&quot;Mr. Brougham — Sir F. Burdett&quot; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Mr._Brougham-Sir_F._Burdett <br class="br">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.”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On the Clerical Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/ClericalCharacter.htm&quot; (January/February 1818) <br class="br">Political Essays (1819)

“The public have neither shame or gratitude.”

William Hazlitt

No. 85
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Good temper is an estate for life…”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On Personal Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/PersCharacter.htm&quot; (1821) <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)

“If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.”

William Hazlitt

"On the Pleasure of Hating"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

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