George Herbert citations

George Herbert est un pasteur anglican, poète et orateur anglais du début du XVIIe siècle, représentatif du mouvement de la poésie métaphysique.

Il est considéré comme saint par l'Église anglicane et fêté localement le 27 février. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. avril 1593 – 1. mars 1633
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George Herbert: Citations en anglais

“837. Words are women, deedes are men.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“292. The best mirrour is an old friend.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Variante: 292. The best mirrour is an old friend.

“520. Living well is the best revenge.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.”

The Answer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“848. He that endures is not overcome.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“406. He that blames would buy.”

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?”

The Size, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)