Famous quotes containing the words hazlitt, youth and/or theatre:
“The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“Advice you take from me comes to you crutched
Like a beggar youth zealous for old age.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)