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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

“The endearing elegance of female friendship.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 46

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”

Actually said by Charles de Gaulle, on leaving his presidency, as quoted inLife' (9 May 1969)
Misattributed

“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 11

“Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.”

Źródło: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 308

“Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?”

Źródło: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 345

“Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”

September 17, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“NETWORK — Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

Samuel Johnson książka A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”

May 1776 http://books.google.com/books?id=8DcUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sir+you+have+but+two+topicks+yourself+and+me+I+am+sick+of+both%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage, p. 313
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”

1772
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.”

When asked by Maurice Morgann whom he considered to be the better poet — Smart or Derrick, 1783, p. 504
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”

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

“English superiority and American obedience.”

As quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55786-664-3 (1994), by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 252–256.

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”

September 20, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)

“Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.”

Źródło: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 1; comparable to: "All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue", Thomas Warton, Universal Love of Pleasure

“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”

Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana

“To a poet nothing can be useless.”

Samuel Johnson książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10

“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”

Life of Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 86 (12 January 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

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