Alain René Lesage idézet

Alain René Lesage [ejtsd: löszázs] francia novellista, drámaíró.

✵ 6. május 1668 – 17. november 1747
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“Facts are stubborn things.”

Alain-René Lesage könyv Gil Blas

Book X, ch. 1. Earlier written by Elliot, Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35 (1747). Translated by Tobias George Smollett, Translation of Gil Blas, Book x, Chapter 1.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)

“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”

Alain-René Lesage könyv Gil Blas

Book VII, ch. 4.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)

“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”

Alain-René Lesage könyv Gil Blas

Book III, ch. 11. Compare: "The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas, in Sheridaniana.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)

“Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.”

Alain-René Lesage könyv Gil Blas

Book VIII, ch. 9. Compare: "What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly", François Rabelais, Works, Book V, ch. 11.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)

“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”

Alain-René Lesage könyv Gil Blas

Book IV, ch. 7.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)

“Plain as a pike-staff.”

Alain-René Lesage könyv Gil Blas

Book XII, ch. 7. Compare: "A flat case as plain as a pack-staff", Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (1602-07), Act v, Scene 3.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)