Samuel Johnson słynne cytaty
Samuel Johnson cytaty
„Ponowne małżeństwo – to triumf nadziei nad doświadczeniem.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
„Patriotyzm jest ostatnim schronieniem szubrawców.”
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (ang.)
Źródło: biografia Life of Johnson vol. II, James Boswell, 1791
„Dlaczego najgłośniej o wolności krzyczą nadzorcy niewolników?”
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? (ang.)
Źródło: Taxation No Tyranny, 1775
„W butelce rozgoryczeni szukają pocieszenia, tchórzliwi – odwagi, nieśmiali – pewności.”
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, wyd. Zamek, Warszawa 1995, s. 149.
„Ten, kto staje się potworem, zrzuca z siebie ciężar bycia człowiekiem.”
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. (ang.)
Źródło: Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale, 1809
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (ang.)
Źródło: biografia Life of Johnson vol. II, James Boswell, 1791
Samuel Johnson: Cytaty po angielsku
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
July 14, 1763, p. 121
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
28 April 1778, p. 659 http://books.google.com/books?id=yYphdZ0abhUC&q=&quot;One+of+the+disadvantages+of+wine+it+makes+a+man+mistake+words+for+thoughts&quot;&pg=PA659#v=onepage <br class="br">Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II <br class="br">Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
Samuel Johnson The Idler
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Źródło: The Idler; Poems
Kontekst: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Recalling "what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils" April 30, 1773, p. 217
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”
The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
Źródło: Life of Johnson, Vol 4
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Letter to James Boswell, October 27, 1779, p. 433
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”
1783, p. 500
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Źródło: The Life of Johnson, Vol 4
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
Samuel Johnson London
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
Samuel Johnson The Rambler
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1 <br class="br">Źródło: The Rambler (1750–1752)
Źródło: Taxation No Tyranny https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Taxation_No_Tyranny (1775)
1783, p. 519
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
