Famous quotes containing the words hazlitt, youth and/or theatre:
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)
“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 (1897–1975)