William Hazlitt Quotes

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Topics

TimeDeathManFightHorseReady

I just don't really like going to the gym that much, and I love eating.

Jessie James Decker

LoveEatingGymGoingJustLike

I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

Anna Kournikova

CommitmentBelieveI BelieveOpen

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

HeroesCowardsGreatestKnown

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

Sue Grafton

PerspectiveGetting OlderRestThink

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

LifeSeaOceanManSunRiver

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Townsend Harris

GoCaliforniaDaysEighteenSteam

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Tony Campolo

CommitmentAmericaGrowingPoor

I'd like to build a TV company for myself.

Rob Lowe

MyselfBuildCompanyLikeTV

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

Rosamund Pike

FireFriendsBigGotWhoFascinated

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

Josh Holloway

CharacterExperiencePersonalityFun

I'd like young girls to be able to listen to my music and take something positive away from it.

Jorja Smith

PositiveMusicYoungListenTake

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Donna Brazile

EducationBestJobPeopleAchieve

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