John Wolcot citáty

John Wolcot byl anglický satirik, píšící pod pseudonymem Peter Pindar.

Narodil se v Dodbrooke. Vyučil se u strýce, který mu celé jmění odkázal. Odjel s Williamem Trelawnym do Jamaiky jako lékař. Po návratu se stal knězem a žil v Truro a v Helstoně. K stáří oslepl. Wolcot byl satirik své doby velice obávaný. Dnes jsou jeho satiry zastaralé. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. květen 1738 – 14. leden 1819
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John Wolcot: Citáty anglicky

“What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”

To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.”

Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“People may have too much of a good thing:
Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.”

Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.

“A fellow in a market town,
Most musical, cried razors up and down.”

Farewell Odes, Ode iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.”

To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.