399 ordspråk av William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt föddes den 10 april 1778 och dog den 18 september 1830 - best known for his humanistic essays.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Det passar inte att alla reser; det gör en vis man bättre och en dåre sämre.

Reise

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Kjærlighet

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense

Sivilisasjon

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

Life

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

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