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
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“They say a carpenter's known by his chips.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“You must take the will for the deed.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.”
Predicting that he would go senile, as quoted in The Highway of Letters and its Echos of Famous Footsteps (1893) by Thomas Archer, p. 380
“So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
To Love, found in Miss Vanhomrigh's desk after her death, in Swift's handwriting
“Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.”
As quoted in The World's Laconics : Or, The Best Thoughts Of The Best Authors (1827) by Johan TImbs, p. 25
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“If it had been a bear it would have bit you.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“Hobbes clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.”
On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)
Brother Protestants; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“She has more goodnessin her little finger, than he has in his whole body.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“Here is laid the Body
of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Sacred Theology,
Dean of this Cathedral Church,
where fierce Indignation
can no longer
injure the Heart.
Go forth, Voyager,
and copy, if you can,
this vigorous (to the best of his ability)
Champion of Liberty.”
Hic depositum est Corpus
IONATHAN SWIFT S.T.D.
Hujus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis
Decani,
Ubi sæva Indignatio
Ulterius
Cor lacerare nequit,
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris,
Strenuum pro virili
Libertatis Vindicatorem.
Hic depositum est Corpus
IONATHAN SWIFT S.T.D.
Hujus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis
Decani,
Ubi sæva Indignatio
Ulterius
Cor lacerare nequit,
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris,
Strenuum pro virili
Libertatis Vindicatorem.
Latin epitaph for himself (1740)
Variant translations:
Swift has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his Breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-Besotted Traveler; he
Served human liberty.
W. B. Yeats, in The Winding Stair (1933)
Here is laid the body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of this Cathedral Church, where savage indignation can no longer tear his heart. Go, traveller, and imitate if you can one who strove with all his might to champion liberty.
As translated in John Mullan's review of Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning, in London Review of Books, Vol. 20 No. 21 (29 October 1998)
Epitaph (1740)
“Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.”
On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)
“But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.”
A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction to the Third Volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England (8 December, 1713)
Jonathan Swift książka A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal (1729)
“Then gave him some familiar Thumps,
A College Joke to cure the Dumps.”
Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy (1734); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Tis as cheap sitting as standing.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”
Earlier proverb, quoted in James Howell's English Proverbs (1659)
Better belly burst than good drink lost.
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“As learned commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.”
On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)
