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John Heywood est un écrivain anglais connu pour ses pièces, poèmes, et ses recueils de proverbes. Il est né près de Londres, mais est arrivé en Europe pour échapper aux persécutions religieuses en raison de ses opinions catholiques. On pense qu'il est mort à Malines en Belgique. Son fils est le poète et traducteur Jasper Heywood . Wikipedia  

✵ 1497 – 1580
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John Heywood Citations

“What man, loue me, loue me dog.”

Proverbs (1546)

John Heywood: Citations en anglais

“Rome was not built in one day.”

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“An ill wind that blows no man to good.”

Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)

“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.”

Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And also I shall to reueng former hurtis,
Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.”

And also I shall to revenge former hurts,
Hold their noses to grindstone, and sit on their skirts.
Part I, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)

“Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.”

Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“One swallow maketh not summer.”

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Beggars should be no choosers.”

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Weddyng is desteny,
And hangyng likewise.”

Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)

“She frieth in her owne grease.”

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.”

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Set the cart before the hors.”

Set the cart before the horse.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)

“A cat may looke on a King.”

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Yee have many strings to your bowe.”

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nought venter nought haue. spare to speake spare to spéede.
Vnknowne vnkyst. it is loste that is vnsought.
As good séeke nought (quoth I) as seeke and finde nought.”

Naught venture naught have. spare to speak spare to speed.
Unknown unkissed. it is lost that is unsought.
As good seek nought, said I, as seek and find naught.
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)

“All a green willow, willow,
All a green willow is my garland.”

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

“You stand in your owne light.”

Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The grey mare is the better horse.”

Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.”

Part I, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Cut my cote after my cloth.”

Part I, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.”

A woman has nine lives like a cat.
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
Variante: A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.

“Ye can not sée the wood for trées.”

You cannot see the wood for trees.
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)

“The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée
Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)”

The more the merrier, we all day hear and see
You, but the fewer the better fare, said he.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)

“Nought venter nought have.”

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue
Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.”

You set circumstances to make me believe
Or think, that the moon is made of green cheese.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)

“It is better to be
An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.”

It is better to be
An old man's darling than a young man's warling.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
Variante: It is better to be
An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.

“We both be at our wittes end.”

Part I, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A penny for your thought.”

Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
Variante: A penny for your thought.