William Hazlitt Quotes about Country

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A wise traveler never despises his own country.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

William Hazlitt

Wise, Country, Travel

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

William Hazlitt

Country, Scotch, Giving

William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

William Hazlitt

Country, Wish, Earth

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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

Death, Country, Horse

William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.101

With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

William Hazlitt

Country, Mistake, Women

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.111

Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

William Hazlitt

Country, Rivers, Growth