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Robert Burton est un écrivain anglais.

✵ 8. février 1577 – 25. janvier 1640
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Robert Burton: Citations en anglais

“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Birds of a feather will gather together.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 15, Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 4, subsection 7, A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 2, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader

“They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 4, member 1, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“All our geese are swans.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better.”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 1, subsection 5, The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”

Robert Burton livre The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 2, Of the Force of Imagination.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I