Samuel Butler (poeta) cytaty
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (ang.)
Samuel Butler (poeta): Cytaty po angielsku
“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat!
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”
Canto I, line 821
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 1495
Źródło: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer
“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”
Canto III, line 1
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto III, line 1047
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
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Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto II, line 29
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Canto III, line 923
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto III, line 624
Źródło: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
Canto II, line 317
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto I, line 1277
Źródło: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.”
Canto II, line 831
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
Canto II, line 443
Źródło: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Canto II, line 501
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.”
Canto III, line 243
Źródło: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Canto I, line 843
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”
Canto I, line 145
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.”
Canto I, line 297
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”
Canto III, line 11
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
Canto II, line 872
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Canto II, line 257
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto II, line 377.
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
Canto III, line 957
Źródło: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4
“He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”
Canto I, line 149
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 51
Źródło: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
