Quotes by Hazlitt, William

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. >>

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It >>

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable >>

Quotations about Acting and Actors

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic mo >>

I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either. >>

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordi >>

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

Hazlitt, William