John Fletcher citáty
John Fletcher
Datum narození: 1579
Datum úmrtí: 1625
John Fletcher byl anglický dramatik pozdní renesance .
Citáty John Fletcher
„Kdo je obklopen ušlechtilými myšlenkami, není nikdy samoten.“
Originál: (en) …never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
Zdroj: [Beaumont, Francis, 1840, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an intr. by G. Darley, 165, angličtina]
„We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so
Need lamentation for him?“
— John Fletcher, Valentinian
Valentinian (1610–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 4.
„First come, first served.“
— John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer
Act II, scene 1.
The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619–23; published 1647)
„Sing a song of sixpence.“
Act V, scene 2.
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647)
„The foot in the grave.“
— John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer
Act I, scene 1.
The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619–23; published 1647)
„As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Act IV, scene 1.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.“
Act IV, scene 3. ("Sit tibi terra levis," familiar inscription).
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647)
„All things that are
Made for our general uses are at war,—
Even we among ourselves.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„Charity and treating begin at home.“
— John Fletcher, Wit Without Money
Scene 2.
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
„Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Epilogue. Compare: "Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„This is a gimcrack
That can get nothing but new fashions on you.“
— John Fletcher, The Elder Brother
Act III, scene 3.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)
„Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.“
— John Fletcher, The Elder Brother
Act V.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)
„Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;—
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.“
— John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize
The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; published 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199.
