William Hazlitt citáty
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William Hazlitt byl anglický spisovatel a literární kritik.

✵ 10. duben 1778 – 18. září 1830   •   Další jména 威廉·赫茲利特
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William Hazlitt nejznámější citáty

„Kdo si neumí udělat nepřátele, nebude mít nikdy ani pravé přátele.“

Originál: (en) He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Zdroj: [Hazlitt, William, 1837, Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's maxims, J. Templeman, 142, angličtina]

„Mlčení je velké umění konverzace.“

Varianta: Mlčení je velkým konverzačním uměním.

William Hazlitt citáty a výroky

„Naslouchali bychom pozorněji moudrosti starých, kdyby byli shovívavější k pošetilosti mladých.“

Zdroj: Vaněk, Zdeněk, Kaleidoskop, Zdeněk Vaněk, Plzeň, 2009, 1, 420, 978-80-254-5071-0, http://kaleidoskop.webz.cz/Kaleidoskop.pdf, 179

William Hazlitt: Citáty anglicky

“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)

“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 kniha 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 kniha 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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