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Poznaj dobrze znane i przydatne cytaty, zwroty i powiedzenia w języku angielskim. Cytaty w języku angielskim z tłumaczeniami.

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Źródło: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Kontekst: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Podejście jest tą małą rzeczą, która robi dużą różnicę.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

Ernest Hemingway książka Death in the Afternoon

Źródło: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

George Carlin Fotografia

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Wariant: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Jane Austen Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Wariant: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Richard Bach Fotografia

“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Źródło: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Kontekst: You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Milan Kundera Fotografia

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

Milan Kundera książka Nieznośna lekkość bytu

pg 233
Źródło: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

Jane Austen Fotografia
Paulo Coelho cytat: “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Paulo Coelho Fotografia

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

Paulo Coelho książka Alchemik

Źródło: The Alchemist (1988), p. 184; this also has been quoted as "What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time."

Jane Austen Fotografia

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

Jane Austen książka Rozważna i romantyczna

Źródło: Sense and Sensibility

Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

Ernest Hemingway książka Pożegnanie z bronią

Źródło: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21

Paulo Coelho Fotografia
Jane Austen Fotografia

“A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

Jane Austen książka Opactwo Northanger

Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey

Oprah Winfrey Fotografia

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Największą przygodą, jaką kiedykolwiek możesz przeżyć, jest życie tego ze swoich marzeń.

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Jack Kerouac Fotografia

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Źródło: Selected Letters, 1940-1956

Leo Tolstoy Fotografia

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

Leo Tolstoy książka Anna Karenina

Źródło: Anna Karenina

Arthur Schopenhauer Fotografia
André Maurois Fotografia

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

Gloria Naylor Fotografia
Henry Adams Fotografia

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

Henry Adams książka The Education of Henry Adams

Źródło: The Education of Henry Adams

Jane Austen Fotografia
Richard Bach Fotografia

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Thich Nhat Hanh Fotografia
Paulo Coelho Fotografia

“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Źródło: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

William Faulkner Fotografia
Confucius Fotografia

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Attributed in Lillet Walters (2000), Secrets of Superstar Speakers; attributed in English sources as a "Japanese proverb" as early as 1924
Misattributed, Not Chinese

Victor Hugo Fotografia

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

Victor Hugo książka Katedra Marii Panny w Paryżu

Źródło: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Nigdy nie osiągnięto niczego wielkiego bez entuzjazmu.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles

Robert A. Heinlein Fotografia

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”

Robert A. Heinlein książka The Green Hills of Earth

Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Źródło: The Green Hills of Earth

Paulo Coelho Fotografia
Niccolo Machiavelli Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson książka Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Wariant: Nature and books belong to all who see them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia
Milton Berle Fotografia

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”

Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor

Wariant: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Victor Hugo Fotografia

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

Victor Hugo książka Nędznicy

Źródło: Les Misérables

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Miał wszystkie zalety, których nie cierpię i żadnej wady, którą bym podziwiał.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Źródło: Wealth, War, and Wisdom

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”
Jeśli gram głupią dziewczynę i zadaje głupie pytanie, i muszę to zagrać to co mam zrobić, wyglądać inteligentnie?

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Henry David Thoreau Fotografia
John Steinbeck Fotografia

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

John Steinbeck książka Grona gniewu

Źródło: The Grapes of Wrath

George Bernard Shaw Fotografia

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings), as quoted in Scientific American, Vol. 31 (1874), p. 121, and in dictionaries of quotations such as Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 117 https://archive.org/stream/excellentquotat00hoitgoog/excellentquotat00hoitgoog#page/n138/mode/1up and Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) by Louis Klopsch, p. 266 https://archive.org/stream/manythoughtsman00klopgoog/manythoughtsman00klopgoog#page/n268/mode/1up.
Misattributed

Jerome K. Jerome Fotografia

“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

Jerome K. Jerome książka Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Źródło: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson

Paulo Coelho Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“I believe in intuition and inspiration.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138. This may be an edited version of some nearly identical quotes from the 1929 Viereck interview below.
1930s
Kontekst: I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Plutarch Fotografia
Woody Allen Fotografia

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Gustave Flaubert Fotografia

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres. To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
Correspondence
Wariant: Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Albert Einstein Fotografia

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950)
Wariant: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Joseph Campbell Fotografia
John F. Kennedy Fotografia
Milan Kundera Fotografia
Francesco Petrarca Fotografia

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”

Francesco Petrarca książka De remediis utriusque fortunae

De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354), Book II

Pearl S.  Buck Fotografia

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Wiele osób traci małe radości w nadziei na wielkie szczęście.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Helen Keller Fotografia

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Wariant: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Lucille Ball Fotografia
Charles Bukowski Fotografia
Carl Sagan Fotografia
Hans Christian Andersen Fotografia

“To travel is to live.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

The Fairy Tale of My Life
Fairy Tales (1835)
Źródło: The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Henry Ford Fotografia

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Jakość oznacza robienie rzeczy dobrze, gdy nikt nie patrzy.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Madonna Fotografia
Aldous Huxley Fotografia

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

Aldous Huxley książka Time Must Have a Stop

Time Must Have a Stop (1944)

Simone de Beauvoir Fotografia

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

Simone de Beauvoir książka La Vieillesse

Pt. 2, Ch. 2: Time, activity, history, p. 412
The Coming of Age (1970)
Źródło: La Vieillesse

Oprah Winfrey Fotografia

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Anaïs Nin Fotografia
William Faulkner Fotografia
Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

Ernest Hemingway książka Pożegnanie z bronią

Źródło: A Farewell to Arms

F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia
Katherine Mansfield Fotografia

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

Katherine Mansfield książka Je ne parle pas français

"Je ne parle pas français," http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/bliss.html#francais from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
Wariant: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it.
Kontekst: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Albert Einstein Fotografia

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Wariant: Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

Agatha Christie Fotografia

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

Agatha Christie książka The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Źródło: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Confucius Fotografia
Ernest Hemingway Fotografia
Paulo Coelho Fotografia
Woody Allen Fotografia
Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“I've been on a calendar, but never on time.”
Byłam według kalendarza ale nigdy na czas.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Woody Allen Fotografia

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Maya Angelou Fotografia

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Źródło: Poems

Wayne W. Dyer Fotografia
Woody Allen Fotografia

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Wariant: There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Oliver Goldsmith Fotografia

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer

Wariant: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Źródło: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

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