Famous quotes containing the words hazlitt, youth and/or theatre:
“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people’s virtues.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Can delight
Chained in night
The virgins of youth and morning bear?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“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)