Frasi di William Hazlitt
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William Hazlitt fu uno scrittore inglese, ricordato per la sua attività di saggista umanistico e di critico letterario, nonché come grammatico, filosofo e pittore.

È considerato uno dei sommi critici e saggisti in lingua inglese, assieme a Samuel Johnson e George Orwell. Tuttavia la sua opera è attualmente poco letta e per la maggior parte fuori stampa. Dandy irriverente e spassoso, nei suoi pamphlet al vetriolo se la prendeva spesso con gli intellettuali. Fu amico di molte persone che fanno ora parte del canone letterario del XIX secolo, tra le quali figurano Charles e Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge e William Wordsworth e John Keats. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Aprile 1778 – 18. Settembre 1830  •  Altri nomi 威廉·赫茲利特
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William Hazlitt frasi celebri

“Quelli per cui il vestito è la parte più importante della persona finiscono in generale per valere tanto quanto il loro vestito.”

William Hazlitt

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.”

William Hazlitt

Origine: Da Conversations of James Northcole, 1830; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni.

“L'arte di riuscire simpatico consiste nel trovare simpatici gli altri.”

William Hazlitt

Origine: Da Dei bei modi.

“Non credo che si possa trovare niente che meriti il nome di società fuori di Londra.”

William Hazlitt

Origine: Citato in Giorgio Porro, Qui Londra.

William Hazlitt Frasi e Citazioni

“Antipatie violente sono sempre sospette, e tradiscono una affinità segreta.”

William Hazlitt

Origine: Da Sketches and Essays, On Vulgarity and Affectation.

“È impossibile odiare qualcuno che conosciamo.”

William Hazlitt

"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.”

William Hazlitt

"On Wit and Humour"
Sketches and Essays

William Hazlitt: Frasi in inglese

“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Ignorance of the Learned&quot; <br class="br"> 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 Hazlitt

William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases, (London, 1882) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0BwDL0yjf1gG1Sn05IQSrM4&amp;id=mmkKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA205&amp;lpg=PA205&amp;dq=%22He+who+would+see+old+Hoghton+right%22#PPA205,M1 <br class="br">Misattributed

“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”

William Hazlitt

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.”

William Hazlitt

"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)

“One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.”

William Hazlitt

No. 162
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”

William Hazlitt

"On Nicknames"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Well, I've had a happy life.”

William Hazlitt

Last words (18 September 1830), quoted by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt, in Memoirs of William Hazlitt (1867) vol. II, p. 238

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On The Conduct of Life&quot; http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/ConductLife.htm (1822), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

“In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason … If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Genius and Common Sense&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;The Indian Jugglers&quot; <br class="br"> 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.”

William Hazlitt

No. 302
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to do it myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Going on a Journey&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”

William Hazlitt

No. 89
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“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

&quot;On Going on a Journey&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.”

William Hazlitt

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, &quot;On the Living Poets&quot;

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