"Dandyism is a variety of genius." — William Hazlitt

"Dandyism is a variety of genius."

— William Hazlitt

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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion… — Lewis H. Lapham
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. — George Meredith
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism… — Robert Adam
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying… — Charles Baudelaire
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. — Sebastian Horsley
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure,… — John Updike

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