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William Hazlitt nejznámější citáty

„Stejně tolik, kolik toho vidíme v druhých, máme i v sobě.“

„Přítele mám rád především proto, že má nedostatky, o nichž si s ním mohu popovídat.“

„Moudrý cestovatel nikdy neopovrhuje svou vlastní zemí.“

„Člověk je jediný živočich, který se směje a pláče, neboť jako jediný byl zasažen rozdílem mezi tím, jaké věci jsou a jaké by měly být.“

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

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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.“

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Varianta: Mlčení je velkým konverzačním uměním.

William Hazlitt citáty a výroky

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

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

„Drzost vzdělanců je úměrná jejich nevědomosti. Na všechno čemu nerozumějí, se dívají svrchu.“

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„Umění žít je vědět, jak vychutnat malé radosti a unést velká břemena.“

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„Malování krajin je zřejmě útočiště misantropů.“

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„Mlčení je velkým konverzačním uměním.“

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William Hazlitt: Citáty anglicky

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

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

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

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"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.”

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

“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.”

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No. 43
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it, or like that secret influence which binds the world together and holds the planets in their orbits.”

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"Edmund Burke"
The Eloquence of the British Senate (1808)

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

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No. 413
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“This Journal, then, is a depository for every species of political sophistry and personal calumny. There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced vindication. There we meet the slime of hypocrisy, the varnish of courts, the cant of pedantry, the cobwebs of the law, the iron hand of power. Its object is as mischievous as the means by which it is pursued are odious.”

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William Hazlitt kniha The Spirit of the Age

"William Gifford" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Mr._Gifford The Spirit of the Age (1825)

“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.”

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"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!”

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

“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”

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No. 364
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity.”

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William Hazlitt kniha The Round Table

"On Beauty"
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority — that of time.”

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

“The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.”

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"On Envy"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.”

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

“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.”

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"On the Ignorance of the Learned" 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.”

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"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.”

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" 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)

“Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.”

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

“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.”

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

“To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.”

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No. 191
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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" 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.”

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

“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. … If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.”

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

“Good temper is an estate for life…”

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" 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.”

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

“It is strange that people should take so much interest at one time in what they so soon forget; — the truth is, they feel no interest in it [news of the day] at any time, but it does for something to talk about. Their ideas are served up to them, like their bill of fare, for the day; and the whole creation, history, war, politics, morals, poetry, metaphysics, is to them like a file of antedated newspapers, of no use, not even for reference, except the one which lies on the table! You cannot take any of these persons at a greater disadvantage than before they are provided with their cue for the day. They ask with a face of dreary vacuity, 'Have you anything new?”

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and on receiving an answer in the negative, have nothing further to say. "On Coffee-House Politicians" Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern — why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?”

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