Izaac Walton citations

Izaac ou Izaak Walton, né à Stafford dans le Staffordshire le 9 août 1593 et mort le 15 décembre 1683 à Winchester dans le Hampshire, est un écrivain anglais, dont l'œuvre est représentative de la littérature de la Restauration anglaise. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. août 1593 – 15. décembre 1683
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Izaac Walton: Citations en anglais

“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 1.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
Contexte: Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

“I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 2.
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“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 2.
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“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Epistle to the Reader.
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“An excellent angler, and now with God.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 4.
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“I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 1.
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“As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 1.
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“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Epistle to the Reader.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

“I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Epistle to the Reader.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 4.
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“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 8.
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“Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Epistle to the Reader.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

“It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 1.
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“God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 579.

“No man can lose what he never had.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 5.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

“We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 5. Referring to William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his "Worthies" (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our age." He died in 1621. This first appeared in the second edition of "The Angler," 1655. Roger Williams, in his "Key into the Language of America," 1643, p. 98, says: "One of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry".
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 5.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)

“Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.”

Izaak Walton livre The Compleat Angler

Part I, ch. 1. Compare: "Virtue is her own reward", John Dryden, Tyrannic Love, act iii, scene 1; "Virtue is to herself the best reward", Henry More, Cupid's Conflict; "Virtue is its own reward", Matthew Prior, Imitations of Horace, book iii. ode 2; John Gay, Epistle to Methuen; Home, Douglas, act iii, scene 1. "Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness", Diogenes Laertius, Plato, xlii; "Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces" ("Virtue herself is her own fairest reward"), Silius Italicus (25?–99): Punica, lib. xiii. line 663.
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