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Samuel Johnson – brytyjski pisarz i leksykograf, autor A Dictionary of the English Language .

✵ 18. Wrzesień 1709 – 13. Grudzień 1784
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Samuel Johnson słynne cytaty

„Gdy dwóch Anglików się spotyka, mówią przede wszystkim o pogodzie.”

Źródło: The Idler, 1758

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

„Są dwa rodzaje wiedzy: kiedy posiadamy wiedzę w jakimś przedmiocie lub wiemy, gdzie znaleźć potrzebne informacje.”

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

“Language is the dress of thought.”

The Life of Cowley
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

“Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Źródło: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”

1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”

Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.”

Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 39 (January 13, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)

“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”

April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”

1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.”

April 28, 1778, p. 404
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.”

Letter to Hester Thrale (12 April 1781) http://books.google.com/books?id=184WAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA736

“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47

“The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.”

1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“God bless you, my dear!”

December 13, 1784 (Last words)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“CLUB — An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.”

Samuel Johnson książka A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”

Samuel Johnson książka A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

“A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.”

Źródło: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 193

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