“Le persone più silenziose sono di solito quelle che hanno la più alta opinione di sé.”
Origine: Da Characteristics.
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William Hazlitt frasi celebri
Origine: Da On the Clerical Character, in Political Essays; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni.
“La moda è la raffinatezza che corre davanti alla volgarità e teme di essere sorpassata.”
Origine: Da Conversations of James Northcole, 1830; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni.
“Non credo che si possa trovare niente che meriti il nome di società fuori di Londra.”
Origine: Citato in Giorgio Porro, Qui Londra.
William Hazlitt Frasi e Citazioni
“Antipatie violente sono sempre sospette, e tradiscono una affinità segreta.”
Origine: Da Sketches and Essays, On Vulgarity and Affectation.
da Political Essays, "On the Clerical Character"
“È impossibile odiare qualcuno che conosciamo.”
"On Criticism"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners
Origine: Citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Italo Sordi, BUR, 1992. ISBN 14603-X
“La rabbia si alimenta con ogni genere di cibo.”
"On Wit and Humour"
Sketches and Essays
Origine: Da Round Table, "On the Causes of Methodism".
William Hazlitt: Frasi in inglese
“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.”
"On the Ignorance of the Learned"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
“He who would see old Hoghton right
Must view it by the pale moonlight.”
William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases, (London, 1882) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0BwDL0yjf1gG1Sn05IQSrM4&id=mmkKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22He+who+would+see+old+Hoghton+right%22#PPA205,M1
Misattributed
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
No. 387
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
"Thoughts on Taste," Edinburgh Magazine, (October 1818), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
“Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
William Hazlitt
libro
The Round Table
"On Manner"
The Round Table (1815-1817)
" Preface.htm http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/"
Political Essays (1819)
“One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.”
No. 162
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
"On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"On Thought and Action"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”
"On Nicknames"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
"Common Places," No. 60, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)
“Well, I've had a happy life.”
Last words (18 September 1830), quoted by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt, in Memoirs of William Hazlitt (1867) vol. II, p. 238
"On Living to One's-Self"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
" On The Conduct of Life" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/ConductLife.htm (1822), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
"On the Knowledge of Character"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"On Genius and Common Sense"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"On Fashion"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
"The Indian Jugglers"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"Thoughts on Taste", Edinburgh Magazine (July 1819), final paragraph
"The Indian Jugglers"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
“If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.”
No. 302
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
"On Prejudice"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
"On Patronage and Puffing"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"On Going on a Journey"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
No. 89
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
No. 19
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
"On Going on a Journey"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture I, "On Poetry in General"
“He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.”
Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets"
