Frases de William Hazlitt
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William Hazlitt foi um escritor inglês, lembrado por seus ensaios humanistas.

No início de sua vida, sente-se fortemente inclinado à prática da pintura, carreira da qual abdica depois da marcante experiência no Museu do Louvre em 1802, época em que o antigo Palácio Real acabara de ser transformado em Museu. Fortemente motivado pela experiência, centrada sobretudo nos "old masters", Hazlitt ensaia sua crítica de arte , cuja versão definitiva é também uma verdadeira teoria da sensibilidade, formulada posteriormente no escrito "On the Elgin marbles", ensaios versando os frisos do Parthenon que o Museu britânico exibe ao público a partir de 1816. As suas investigações estéticas ancoradas em sua crítica de arte tem seu desenvolvimento derradeiro num escrito de 1826, The plain Speaker. Depois disso, o autor viria a dedicar-se integralmente à História de Napoleão e da Revolução Francesa, em que exprime seu profundo entusiasmo pela constituição republicana consequente da revolução política de 1789.

Crítico de arte, defensor dos valores de republicanismo e historiador, Hazlitt é sobretudo um brilhante estilista que transforma o talento não direcionado à produção pictórica em prosa do mais elevado grau de excelência. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Abril 1778 – 18. Setembro 1830  •  Outros nomes 威廉·赫茲利特
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William Hazlitt Frases famosas

“O preconceito é o filho da ignorância.”

William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance <br class="br">Men and manners: sketches and essays‎ - Página 83 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=bKADAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA83, de William Hazlitt - Pub. at the office of The illustrated London library, 1852 - 313 páginas

“Nunca conseguimos fazer nada correctamente enquanto não pararmos de pensar em como o fazer.”

William Hazlitt

Variante: Nunca conseguimos fazer nada corretamente enquanto não pararmos de pensar em como o fazer.

“A arte de agradar consiste em ter agrado com isso.”

William Hazlitt

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
The round table. Northcote's conversations. Characteristics‎ - Página 60, de William Hazlitt, James Northcote - Bell & Daldy, 1871 - 568 páginas

“Antipatias violentas são sempre suspeitas e revelam uma afinidade secreta.”

William Hazlitt

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. <br class="br">Table-talk: or original essays‎ - Vol. 2, Página 377 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=gykJAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA377, de William Hazlitt - 1821 - 400 páginas

Citações de arte de William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt frases e citações

“Se os governantes quisessem o que está certo, tê-lo-iam obtido há muito tempo.”

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt citado em "Citações da Cultura Universal"‎ - Página 233, de Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899
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“Ciência é o desejo de conhecer as causas”

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt, filósofo inglês, conforme encontrado em Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Capítulo: "O que é ciência?" - Editora Record - 2006 - pág.: 459
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“Uma paixão forte por qualquer objecto assegurará o sucesso, porque o desejo pelo objectivo mostrará os meios.”

William Hazlitt

Variante: Uma paixão forte por qualquer objeto assegurará o sucesso, porque o desejo pelo objetivo mostrará os meios.

“A simplicidade de caráter é o resultado natural da profundez de pensamento.”

William Hazlitt

Variante: A simplicidade de caráter é o resultado natural de profundo raciocínio.

“Não há animal mais degradante, estúpido, covarde, lamentável, egoísta, rancoroso, invejoso, ingrato, que o público. É o maior dos covardes, porque de si mesmo tem medo.”

William Hazlitt

Variante: Não há animal mais abjecto, estúpido, cobarde, lamentável, egoísta, rancoroso, invejoso, ingrato, que o público. É o maior dos cobardes, porque de si mesmo tem medo.

“O espírito é o sal da conversa, não o seu alimento.”

William Hazlitt

Variante: O espírito é o sal da conversação e não o alimento.

William Hazlitt: Frases em inglês

“The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”

William Hazlitt

No. 333
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men.”

William Hazlitt

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, &quot;On the Living Poets&quot;

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

William Hazlitt

"Common Places," No. 13, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

William Hazlitt

"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”

William Hazlitt

"On Court-Influence" (January 3/January 10, 1818)
Political Essays (1819)

“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”

William Hazlitt

No. 87
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.”

William Hazlitt

No. 330
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Knowledge of Character&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one — they shew one another off to the best advantage.”

William Hazlitt

No. 376
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”

William Hazlitt

"On Prejudice"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)

“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On the Spirit of Obligations http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/SpiritObligations.htm&quot; (1824) <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)

“When a man is dead, they put money in his coffin, erect monuments to his memory, and celebrate the anniversary of his birthday in set speeches. Would they take any notice of him if he were living? No!”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Living to One&#x27;s-Self&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…”

William Hazlitt

"On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”

William Hazlitt

"On Dreams"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.”

William Hazlitt

&quot; On the Qualifications Necessary for Success http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Success.htm&quot; <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)

“It is not easy to write a familiar style. Many people mistake a familiar for a vulgar style, and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random. On the contrary, there is nothing that requires more precision, and, if I may so say, purity of expression, than the style I am speaking of. It utterly rejects not only all unmeaning pomp, but all low, cant phrases, and loose, unconnected, slipshod allusions. It is not to take the first word that offers, but the best word in common use; it is not to throw words together in any combinations we please, but to follow and avail ourselves of the true idiom of the language. To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes… It is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express: it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it, out of eight or ten words equally common, equally intelligible, with nearly equal pretensions, it is a matter of some nicety and discrimination to pick out the very one the preferableness of which is scarcely perceptible, but decisive.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Familiar Style&quot; (1821) <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.”

William Hazlitt

No. 66
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”

William Hazlitt

No. 402
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing.”

William Hazlitt

Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture III, &quot;On Shakespeare and Milton&quot;

“Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Ignorance of the Learned&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”

William Hazlitt

"On Application to Study"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On the Pleasure of Painting&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”

William Hazlitt

&quot;On Great and Little Things&quot; <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)