Creative Quotations from William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

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."

When I'm in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.

"We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all."

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
R:	"Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 421 (1823; repr. in The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. by P. P. Howe, 1932)."
A:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N:	""On Cant and Hypocrisy""
K:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."