John Heywood cytaty

John Heywood – angielski dramaturg i poeta.

Najbardziej znanym utworem dramatycznym Johna Heywooda jest farsa The Four P's . Jego bohaterowie: Palmer , Pardoner , Potycary i Pedler współzawodniczą w konkursie na największe kłamstwo. Inną sztuką jest Wytty and Wytless . Poeta pozostawił po sobie również wiele epigramatów.

Fraszki Heywooda są dostępne w internetowej antologii poezji angielskiej. Wikipedia  

✵ 1497 – 1580
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John Heywood cytaty

„Szczęśliwy człowiek nie ma koszuli.”

John Heywood

The happy man's without a shirt.
Źródło: Be Merry Friends

John Heywood: Cytaty po angielsku

“Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 6.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Wariant: Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head,
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

“A short horse is soone currid.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Who hopeth in Gods helpe, his helpe can not starte:
Nothing is impossible to a willyng hart,
And will maie wyn my herte, herein to consent,
To take all thinges as it cometh, and be content.”

John Heywood

Who hopes in God's help, his help can not start:
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart,
And will may win my heart, herein to consent,
To take all things as it comes, and be content.
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)

“Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Wariant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.

“The still sowe eats up all the draffe.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood
Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.”

John Heywood

Rome was not built in one day, said he, and yet stood
Till it was finished, as some say, full fair.
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)

“To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All is fish that comth to net.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.”

John Heywood

Serve me, serve thee, one good turn asks another.
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
Wariant: One good turne asketh another.

“The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.”

John Heywood

The nearer to the church, the farther from God.
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)

“A fooles bolt is soone shot.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Wariant: Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,
With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

“Two heddis are better then one.”

John Heywood

Two heads are better than one.
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)

“To hold with the hare and run with the hound.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)

“Many handis make light warke.”

John Heywood

Many hands make light work.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)
Wariant: Many hands make light work.

“Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.”

John Heywood

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)

“Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.”

John Heywood

Some things that provoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after wedding, that haste makes waste.
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)

“And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.”

John Heywood

Proverbs (1546)
Wariant: And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.

“A hard beginning makes a good ending.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)

“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Time is tickell, and out of sight out of minde.
Than catche and holde while I may, fast binde fast finde.”

John Heywood

Time is fickle, and out of sight out of mind.
Than catch and hold while I may, fast bind fast find.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)