"If we wish to know the force of……" — William Hazlitt
"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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More Commentators Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
— Tony Blair
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be…
— Norman Finkelstein
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It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically…
— Keith Preston
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
— David Berlinski
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Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played…
— Tony Benn
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Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful…
— George Crabbe
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In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues…
— Stockwell Day
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As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea…
— Byron York
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You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department…
— Noam Chomsky
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