William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as an art critic, drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is ... more »

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''One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.''
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In Complete Works, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics, no. 162 (first published anonym...
''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.''
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Table Talk, "On Living to One's Self," (1821-1822).
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we p...
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In Complete Works, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics, no. 60, published anonymously (...
''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.''
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Table Talk, "On Living to One's Self," (1821-1822).

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