William Hazlitt Quotes & Sayings
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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
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. [On the Love of Life] - William Hazlitt
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. - William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. - William Hazlitt
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. - William Hazlitt
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath, tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. - William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. - William Hazlitt
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. [On the Love of Life] - William Hazlitt
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. - William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. - William Hazlitt
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. - William Hazlitt
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath, tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. - William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. - William Hazlitt