„Czyn jako cnota sam w sobie mieści nagrodę.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
Walter Scott: 158 cytatów0 Polubień
Walter Scott słynne cytaty
„Zła to rozmowa, kiedy jeden biesiaduje, a drugi pości.”
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, wyd. Zamek, Warszawa 1995, s. 148.
„Fortuna ma tron na skale, ale ludzie wahają się po niego sięgnąć.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał K. Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
„Umieram, umarłem lub byłem martwy.”
Walter Scott książka Kenilworth
Morior, mortuus sum vel fui mori. (łac.)
Źródło: Kenilworth
Walter Scott: Cytaty po angielsku
Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294
“When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto I, stanza 7.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Walter Scott książka Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
Walter Scott książka The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Walter Scott książka The Monastery
Źródło: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
Walter Scott książka Waverley
Źródło: Waverley (1814), Chapter LIV
“It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.”
Walter Scott książka The Antiquary
Volume I, Ch. 11.
The Antiquary (1816)
Walter Scott książka The Antiquary
Vol. I, Ch.15.
The Antiquary (1816), On the postal service
Walter Scott książka Old Mortality
Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction, st. 30.
Marmion (1808)
“The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”
Life of Napoleon (February, 1807).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Wariant: The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
“Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, stanza 33.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott książka Rokeby
Canto III, stanza 16.
Rokeby (1813)
Walter Scott książka Ivanhoe
Źródło: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 26, Wamba explaining to Cedric how to get away with impersonating a priest. Pax vobiscum means "peace be with you".
“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott książka Ivanhoe
Źródło: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe to Rebecca, who questions the value of chivalry and has asked what remains for knights when death takes them.
“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”
Walter Scott książka The Monastery
Źródło: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.
“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”
Walter Scott książka Woodstock
Woodstock (1826), Ch. 28.
“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”
Walter Scott Marmion
L'Envoy.
Marmion (1808)
Canto V, stanza 30. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, st. 14.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott książka Ivanhoe
Źródło: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 44, Rebecca speaking to Rowena.
“Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”
Bridal of Triermain, canto i. Stanza 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walter Scott Marmion
Were the last words of Marmion.
Canto VI, st. 32.
Marmion (1808)
“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”
Walter Scott książka The Monastery
Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck.
The Monastery (1820)
“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”
Walter Scott książka A Legend of Montrose
A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
