Hazlitt

Hazlitt may refer to:

  • Hazlitt Theatre, one of the main theatres in Maidstone, Kent
  • Seth Hazlitt, a fictional character
  • Hazlitt (Classical Gazetteer), a short descriptive geographical dictionary by William Hazlitt written in 1851
  • Hazlitt's, a hotel in Soho, London

People named Hazlitt:

  • Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (1901-1962), American screenwriter
  • Gerry Hazlitt (1888-1915), Australian cricketer
  • Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), libertarian philosopher, economics writer, and journalist
  • John Hazlitt (1767-1837), English artist
  • William Hazlitt (Unitarian minister) (1737-1820), Unitarian minister and author
  • William Hazlitt (1778-1830), English literary critic and essayist
  • William Hazlitt (registrar) (1811-1893), English writer, translator, and registrar
  • William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), English bibliographer, editor, writer, and lawyer

Famous quotes containing the word hazlitt:

    I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)