Famous quotes containing the words hazlitt, youth and/or theatre:
“Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idolsit is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)