George Gordon Byron híres idézetei
George Gordon Byron Idézetek az életről
Eredeti: letter to the Rev. Francis Hodgson (1811), from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
George Gordon Byron Idézetek a vallásról
Eredeti: Letter, 8 March 1822, to poet Thomas Moore Letters and Journals, vol. 9, 1979
„A vallásról nem tudok semmit - legalábbis olyat nem, ami mellette szól.”
Eredeti: from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion, also James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
George Gordon Byron idézetek
„Ha bolond is vagyok, legalább kételkedő; és senkitől sem irigylem a maga bizonyosságát.”
Eredeti: Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 3 (1974), entry for 27 Nov. 1813
Eredeti: from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion, also James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
Eredeti: from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion, also James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
„A keresztények abban a meggyőződésben égették egymást, hogy az Apostolok is így tettek volna.”
másik változat: A keresztények abban a meggyõzõdésben égették egymást, hogy az Apostolok is úgy tették volna.
Eredeti: Don Juan, from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
„Mindenki hajlamos azt hinni, amit kíván, egy lottó sorsjegytől a paradicsomba való útlevélig.”
Eredeti: Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 3 (1974), entry for 27 Nov. 1813
„Azt mondják, az erény önmaga jutalma - kétségkívül meg is érdemli a jutalmat fáradozásáért.”
Naplók, levelek. Napló 1813-14-ből. Európa Kk., Bp., 1978. 7. o.
Eredeti: Detached Thoughts, no. 96 (1821-22) in Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 9, 1979
„A mennyországot remélem úgy érem el, hogy a földet pokollá teszem.”
Eredeti: quoting a zealot in Childe Harold, from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
George Gordon Byron: Idézetek angolul
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.”
The Island (1823), Canto II, Stanza 19.
“That which I am, I am; I did not seek
For life, nor did I make myself.”
Cain (1821), Act III, sc. i.
St. 1.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
“And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.”
Stanza 2.
The Dream (1816)
“Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?”
Canto I, stanza 1.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
To Thomas Moore, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).
“Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.”
Act I, scene 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=q4QR8v_hOigC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=%22Eat,+drink,+and+love;+the+rest's+not+worth+a+fillip.%22&source=bl&ots=ey6M4uLNpl&sig=L0zlgXlw1OgHOZzN50sGeRHkc50&hl=en&ei=CJQ7TObKK4XbnAeE-LXlAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Eat%2C%20drink%2C%20and%20love%3B%20the%20rest's%20not%20worth%20a%20fillip.%22&f=false.
Sardanapalus (1821)
“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
Forrás: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 51.
“Shrine of the mighty! can it be
That this is all remains of thee?”
Forrás: The Giaour (1813), Line 106.
“The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.”
Canto II, stanza 2.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
Song for the Luddites http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Luddites.htm (1816).
Parisina, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Nap-06.htm, st. 29 (1814).
Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 6.
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
“The dust we tread upon was once alive.”
Act IV, scene 1.
Sardanapalus (1821)
“And both were young, and one was beautiful.”
Stanza 2.
The Dream (1816)
“What say you to such a supper with such a woman?”
Note to a Letter on Bowles's Strictures, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The careful pilot of my proper woe.”
Epistle to Augusta, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).