1. Citáty
  2. Autoři
  3. Jack Vance

Jack Vance citáty

Jack Vance, vlastním jménem John Holbrook Vance byl americký důlní inženýr, fyzik, scenárista a spisovatel science fiction, fantasy a detektivních příběhů. Počátky jeho tvorby jsou spojeny s tzv. Zlatým věkem science fiction. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. srpen 1916 – 26. květen 2013   •   Další jména جک ونس, ჯეკ ვენსი
Jack Vance foto
Jack Vance: 213   citátů 0   lajků

Jack Vance: Citáty anglicky

“Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 7, section 5 (p. 848)

““You’re sure you want to look into these cognates? You might see things you wouldn’t like.”
“So long as I know the truth, I don’t care whether I like it or not.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance

Section 6 (p. 186)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 419)

“Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 5, "The Pilgrims"
Zdroj: Tales of the Dying Earth

“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance

“Sorry, I’m not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance

Section 6 (p. 184)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 1, "Turjan of Miir"

“He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 11, section 1 (p. 967)

“When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance

"The Murthe", chapter 2
Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"

“How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real…”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha The Dragon Masters

Section 7
The Dragon Masters (1962)

“The less a writer discusses his work—and himself—the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance

Afterword to "The Bagful of Dreams" in The Jack Vance Treasury (2007). First appeared in Epoch (1775), ed. Robert Silverberg and Roger Elwood.

“We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

"Fader's Waft", chapter 13
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“Shimrod said: “Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.”
Melancthe smiled a cool smile. “And now?”
“The child seems to have wandered away.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 1 (p. 436)

“The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 11, section 2 (p. 968)

““Let him talk as he will!” scoffed Zamp. “His motives are not at all obscure.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha Showboat World

Zdroj: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 10 (p. 108)

“What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 750)

““Sir Tristano spoke: “Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!”
“Naturally!” said the voice from a point close behind. “That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!””

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 1, section 4 (p. 375)

“It is no hardship whatever,” said Aillas. “You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 13, section 3 (p. 571)

“In measured tones he answered Madouc: “Your condition lacks dignity; you bring ridicule upon us all.”
Madouc gave a stony shrug. “If you do not like what you see, look elsewhere.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 9, section 4 (p. 928)

“There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha The Languages of Pao

Zdroj: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 133)

““Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!”
“For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,” muttered Zamp under his breath.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha Showboat World

Zdroj: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 14 (p. 168)

“It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 2, "The Bagful of Dreams"

“You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha The Last Castle

Zdroj: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 3, section 2

“Guyal reined his horse and reflected that flowers were rarely cherished by persons of hostile disposition.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 6, "Guyal of Sfere"

““You drink only sparingly. Is the beer too thin?”
“No at all. I merely wish to keep my wits about me. It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 4 (p. 447)

“You will understand,” said the Weaponeer, “that a pattern for events exists. It is the function of such as myself to shape events so that they will fit the pattern.” He bent, with a graceful sweep of arm, and seized a small jagged pebble. “Just as I can grind this bit of rock to fit a round aperture.”
Kergan Banbeck reached forward, took the pebble, tossed it high over the tumbled boulders. “That bit of rock you shall never shape to fit a round hole.”
The Weaponeer shook his head in mild deprecation. “There is always more rock.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha The Dragon Masters

“And there are always more holes,” declared Kergan Banbeck.
Section 2
The Dragon Masters (1962)

“You must save yourselves,” Rogol Domedonfors told them. “You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 5, "Ulan Dhor"

“In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack Vance kniha The Last Castle

Zdroj: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 1, section 1