Creative Quotations from . . .
William Hazlitt
(1778-1830) born on Apr 10
English "writer, essayist". "He wrote "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays," 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity."
 
   
F
A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of."

R
"A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character."
A
"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
N
"A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer --that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two."
K
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they shew one another off to the best advantage.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "On Personal Character.""
R: ""On Clerical Character," published in Yellow Dwarf (24/31 Jan. & 7 Feb. 1818; repr. in Political Essays, 1819)."
A: "Sketches and Essays, "On Nicknames" (1839)."
N: "Political Essays, Preface (1819; repr. in Complete Works, vol. 7, ed. by P. P. Howe, 1932)."
K: "Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 376 (1823; repr. in The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. by P. P. Howe, 1932)."



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