William Hazlitt on Love
Browse 6 quotations attributed to William Hazlitt, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to William Hazlitt, entry #173238: "A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them."
Attributed to William Hazlitt, entry #102694: "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
6 Quotes by William Hazlitt on Love
"A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them."
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."
"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."
"The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority — that of time."