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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

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26

“Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.”

1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”

November 1784, p. 566
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.”

Pitt's Reply to Walpole, Speech, March 6, 1741. This is the composition of Johnson, founded on some note or statement of the actual speech. Johnson said, "That speech I wrote in a garret, in Exeter Street." Boswell: Life of Johnson, 1741
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

“He who praises everybody praises nobody.”

Johnson's Works (1787), vol. XI, p. 216; This set included the Life of Samuel Johnson by Sir John Hawkins

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Vol. I, p. 137
Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson
Wariant: The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26

“Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!”

October 23, 1773
Ordering a glass of whisky for himself
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“Was ever poet so trusted before?”

1774
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 151 (27 August 1751). http://books.google.com/books?id=VvhDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22avarice+is+generally+the+last+passion+of+those+lives+of+which+the+first+part+has+been+squandered+in+pleasure+and+the+second+devoted+to+ambition%22&pg=PA262#v=onepage
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29

“Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.”

September 23, 1777, p. 363
A toast made by Johnson, as Boswell states, "when in company with some very grave men at Oxford".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."”

In response to a line of a tragedy that went 'Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." June 1784
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.”

Źródło: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village

“He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.”

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

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