Quote

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

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
Men
Temples
Grave
Flames
Kindled
Graves
Altars
Stands
Burns
Fame
Flame
Upon
Temple
Great
Ashes

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
William Hazlitt
Image
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
William Hazlitt
Image
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
William Hazlitt
Image
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
William Hazlitt
Image
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
William Hazlitt
Image
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
Image
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
William Hazlitt
Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
William Hazlitt
Image
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
William Hazlitt
Image
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
William Hazlitt
Image
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
Image
The soul of dispatch is decision.
William Hazlitt
Image
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
William Hazlitt
Image
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
William Hazlitt
Image
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
William Hazlitt
Image
The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
William Hazlitt
Image
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
William Hazlitt
Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
William Hazlitt