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.”

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.

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

Origine: Da Dei bei modi.

“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.

“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

William Hazlitt: Frasi in inglese

“Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.”

This is from Hazlitt's "Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A.," New Monthly Magazine (1826-1827), published in book form in 1830; but the words were spoken by Northcote
Misattributed

“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.”

"On Living to One's-Self"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.”

"American Literature — Dr. Channing," Edinburgh Review, (October 1829), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”

" On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/DiffWritSpeak.htm"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.”

"On the Ignorance of the Learned"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.”

"On Knowledge of the World"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Indeed some degree of affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.”

" On Cant and Hypocrisy http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/CantHypocrisy.htm", London Weekly Review, (6 December 1828)
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.”

No. 429
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

“The great requisite … for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.”

"On Thought and Action" http://books.google.com/books?id=9NU3AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+great+requisite%22+%22for+the+prosperous+management+of+ordinary+business+is+the+want+of+imagination%22&pg=PA241#v=onepage
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.”

"On Going on a Journey"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”

No. 101
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.”

"On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”

"On Vulgarity and Affectation" http://books.google.com/books?id=gykJAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Violent+antipathies+are+always+suspicious+and+betray+a+secret+affinity%22&pg=PA377#v=onepage
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“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.”

"A Farewell to Essay-Writing" (March 1828)
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)

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