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
“Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)
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Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“The sight of you is good for sore eyes.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Jonathan Swift książka A Tale of a Tub
Dedication
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“There's two words to that bargain.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Meditation on a Broomstick (1703–1710)
“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Introduction.
Polite Conversation (1738)
“There was all the world and his wife.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
Jonathan Swift książka A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
“We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.”
Journal to Stella (February 1, 1711)
“Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
My Lady's Lamentation, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II, edited by William Ernst Browning (1910); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I know nothing of music; I would not give a farthing for all the music in the universe.”
Observations on Lord Orrery's Remarks on Life of Swift, Delany, (1754), p. 192.
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