William Hazlitt Quotes about Imagination

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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

William Hazlitt

Fall, People, Imagination

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

William Hazlitt

Believe, Men, Imagination

William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.222

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt

Imagination, Texture, Delicate

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

William Hazlitt

Imagination, Ordinary, Want

William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.117

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

William Hazlitt

Sight, Expression, Imagination

William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe (1925). “New writings by Willam Hazlitt”

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

Kings, Character, Imagination

William Hazlitt (1845). “Characters of Shakespeare's Plays”, p.158

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

William Hazlitt

Anger, Long, Imagination

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1916, Delphi Classics