Quote

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

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
Reading
Verbal
Others
Wraps
Book
Reflected
Mind
Worms
Things
Shadows
Sees
Glimmering
Shadow
Generalities
Minds
Worm

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt
Image
We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
William Hazlitt
Image
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt
Image
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
William Hazlitt
Image
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt
Image
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt
Image
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
Image
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
Image
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt
Image
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite
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
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
William Hazlitt
Image
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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 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
We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
Image
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
William Hazlitt
Image
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
William Hazlitt
Image
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
William Hazlitt
Image
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
William Hazlitt