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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

“Round numbers are always false.”

Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 2, edited by George Birkbeck Hill

“Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest”

London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 166–167

“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”

Boulter's Monument. (Supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”

Quoted in Anecdotes of Johnson by Hannah More in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 197, edited by George Birkbeck Hill. More had quoted this remark in a letter to her sister (April 1782)

“I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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

“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”

In response to Hannah More wondering why Milton could write Paradise Lost but only poor sonnets. June 13, 1784, p. 542
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.”

1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”

1770, p. 182
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”

April 2, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”

1775
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.”

August 16, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“ESSAY — A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.”

Samuel Johnson książka A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.”

October 12, 1779
On the Giant's Causeway. A similar opinion was expressed by the English traveller Richard Twiss in 1775 in A Tour of Ireland http://books.google.ie/books?id=ujpIAAAAMAAJ, p. 157
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”

May 1776
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”

April 14, 1772, p. 201
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.”

"The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5L9GAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA306&dq=%22Liberty+is%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=QMMqU_f7MMPMhAeAwoC4DA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Liberty%20is%22&f=false. Note: This essay was "added to some editions of The Idler, when collected into volumes, but not by Dr. Johnson" — vide The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 2 (London, 1806), footnote http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uYPfXTOfTTsC&pg=PA427&dq=%22This+short+paper%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=DcgqU_PlN_Ha0QXQyoDoAw&ved=0CGIQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=%22This%20short%20paper%22&f=false on p. 427

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