„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]
John Fletcher citáty
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John Fletcher
Datum narození: 1579
Datum úmrtí: 1625
John Fletcher byl anglický dramatik pozdní renesance .
Fotka: Unknown author / Public domain
Citáty John Fletcher
„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.
„Charity and treating begin at home.“
— John Fletcher, Wit Without Money
Scene 2.
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
„Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd,
And then they shine.“
— John Fletcher, The Loyal Subject
Act I, scene 5.
The Loyal Subject (c. 1616–19; published 1647, 1679)
„Though I say't that should not say't.“
Wit at Several Weapons (with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley; c. 1610–20; published 1647), Act II, scene 2.
„Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.“
The Nice Valour (c. 1615–25; publsihed 1647), Act iii, scene 3.
„That soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Epilogue. Compare: "An honest man's the noblest work of God", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„There is no jesting with edge tools.“
— John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer
Act IV, scene vii.
The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619–23; published 1647)
„Deeds, not words.“
The Lover's Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; revised 1634; published 1647), Act iii. Sc. 4. Compare: "Deeds, not words", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto i, line 867.
„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)
„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)
„Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly!
There's naught in this life sweet
But only melancholy;
O sweetest melancholy!“
The Nice Valor (1647), Melancholy. Compare: "Naught so sweet as melancholy", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
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