Quote

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Worth
Remember
Life
Remembering
Poetry

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
William Hazlitt
Image
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt
Image
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
William Hazlitt
Image
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt
Image
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
William Hazlitt
Image
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
William Hazlitt
Image
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
William Hazlitt
Image
We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
William Hazlitt
Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
William Hazlitt
Image
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
William Hazlitt
Image
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who can command themselves command others.
William Hazlitt
Image
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
Image
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Image
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt
Image
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt
Image
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
William Hazlitt
Image
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt
Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt