Jonathan Swift słynne cytaty
„Najlepszymi lekarzami na świecie są: doktor dieta, doktor spokój i doktor dobry humor.”
The best doctors in the world are: Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. (ang.)
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
„Każdy pragnie żyć długo, ale nikt nie chciałby starości.”
Źródło: Zostawić ślad na ziemi, red. Małgorzata Halicka, Jerzy Halicki, Wydawn. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2006, s. 137.
Jonathan Swift cytaty
„Prawo jest jak pajęczyna, w której małe muchy grzęzną, a osy i trzmiele przez nią przelatują.”
Laws are cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through (ang.)
Źródło: w 1707
„Słonia przeważnie rysuje się mniejszego, niż jest w rzeczywistości, a pchłę większą.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał K. Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. (ang.)
Jonathan Swift: Cytaty po angielsku
Imitation of Horace, book ii. Sat. 6.; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
On a Dull Writer, reported in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Alternately attributed to Alexander Pope by Bartlett's Quotations, 10th Edition (1919). Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303
Disputed
“She pays him in his own coin.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March, 1753)
Misattributed
“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”
Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift książka A Tale of a Tub
Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Jonathan Swift książka The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“There is none so blind as they that won't see.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
Jonathan Swift książka A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754, published posthumously)
Jonathan Swift książka A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“T is happy for him that his father was before him.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift książka Les Voyages de Gulliver
Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Jonathan Swift książka A Tale of a Tub
Preface
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Jonathan Swift książka Cadenus and Vanessa
Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)
Jonathan Swift książka A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Conversation
“He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.”
Jonathan Swift książka A Tale of a Tub
Sect. 11
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
