Samuel Butler citáty strana 2

„Lež mi tolik nevadí, ale nenávidím nepřesnost.“

„Umřít v pohodlí - to stojí hodně peněz.“

„Nic nepůsobí tak silným dojmem jako mlčící dav.“

„Oznámíte-li někomu, že jste ho učinil svým dědicem, pak jediná slušná věc, kterou můžete udělat, je ihned umřít.“

„Svět možná není příliš moudrý - ale prozatím neznáme nic moudřejšího.“

„Nic není způsobilé vyléčit lásku - kromě nezpůsobilosti k ní.“

„Slepice je jen způsobem, jakým vejce dělá další vejce.“

Varianta: Nic není schopné vyléčit lásku kromě nezpůsobilosti.

„Svědomí je tak dobře vychované, že se okamžitě přestane hlásit těm, kteří mu nechtějí naslouchat.“

„Definovat něco je jakési poškrábání, po němž svědící místo svědí ještě víc.“

„Domníval se, že píše přesně v Shakespearově duchu, a byl šťastný, když ho pokládali za dramatikova syna.“

“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat!
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”

o Johnu Drydenovi
Zdroj: [Schnakenberg, Robert, 2010, Tajné životy slavných spisovatelů, Knižní klub, 1, 14, 978-80-242-2598-2]

Samuel Butler: Citáty anglicky

“With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—
The tools of working our salvation
By mere mechanic operation.”

Canto I, line 821
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”

Canto I, line 1495
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“The hollow-hearted, disaffected,
And close malignant are detected;
Who lay their lives and fortunes down,
For pledges to secure our own.”

The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer

“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”

Samuel Butler (poet) Hudibras

Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honour's truckle-bed.”

Canto III, line 1
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”

Canto III, line 1047
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,
And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn
From black to red began to turn.”

Canto III, line 398
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”

Canto II, line 29
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“With books and money plac'd for show
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.”

Canto III, line 923
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”

Canto III, line 624
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“These reasons made his mouth to water.”

Canto II, line 317
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was prov'd true before
Prove false again? Two hundred more.”

Canto III, line 379
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.”

Canto I, line 1277
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”

Canto II, line 831
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“As the ancients
Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,
And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow, ye are like to reap.”

Canto II, line 443
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.”

Canto II, line 501
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”

Canto III, line 243
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”

Canto I, line 843
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.”

Canto I, line 145
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”

Canto I, line 297
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”

Canto III, line 11
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”

Canto II, line 872
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it;
Then how can any man be said
To break an oath he never made?”

Canto II, line 257
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“A skilful leech is better far
Than half an hundred men of war,
So he appear'd; and by his skill,
No less than dint of sword, cou'd kill.”

Canto II, line 377.
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”

Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do, are as wise as those who think by rowing boats, to learn to swim.”

Canto III, line 957
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.”

Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4

“He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”

Samuel Butler (poet) Hudibras

Canto I, line 1293
Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more difficile
Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.”

Canto I, line 149
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)