Bret Harte cytaty

Francis Bret Harte – amerykański pisarz i dziennikarz.

Był autorem popularnych opowiadań z życia kalifornijskich pionierów i awanturników okresu gorączki złota . Polskie wybory opowiadań tego autora to m.in. Obrazki z życia kalifornijskiego , Trzech włóczęgów z Trinidad , Ślicznotka z Sierra Nevada , Pocztmistrzyni . Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Sierpień 1836 – 5. Maj 1902
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Bret Harte: Cytaty po angielsku

“And he says that the mountains are fairer
For once being held in your thought;”

East and West Poems, Part I, His Answer to "Her Letter.".

“We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.”

The Heathen Chinee (1870)

“Virtue always meets reward,
But quicker when it wears a sword;”

East and West Poems, Part II, The Legends of the Rhine.

“Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”

East and West Poems, Part I, The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin.

“But, when the goddess' work is done,
The woman's still remains.”

East and West Poems, Part I, The Goddess.

“Each lost day has its patron saint!”

East and West Poems, Part I, The Galeon.

“Ah Sin was his name.”

The Heathen Chinee (1870)