Samuel Butler citáty strana 3

„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.“

“As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.”

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

Samuel Butler: Citáty anglicky

“True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.”

Canto I, line 481
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.”

Canto II, line 175
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow;
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.”

Canto I, line 852
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.”

Canto I, line 221
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?”

Canto II, line 79
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“For those that run away and fly,
Take place at least o' the enemy.”

Canto I, line 465
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull
That's empty when the moon is full;
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.”

Canto III, line 609
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.”

Canto I, line 159
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“And poets by their sufferings grow;
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.”

Canto III, line 877
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“For he could coin, or counterfeit
New words, with little or no wit;
Words so debas'd and hard, no stone
Was hard enough to touch them on;
And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em;
The ignorant for current took 'em;”

"Miscellaneous Thoughts" in The Poems of Samuel Butler, Volume 2, Press of C. Whittingham, 1822, p. 269
"Fragments", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.”

Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”

Canto I, line 273
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.”

Canto I, line 463
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He was in LOGIC a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side:
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute,
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse;
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks Committee-men and Trustees.”

Canto III, line 277
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He had got a hurt
O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.”

Canto I, line 65
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.”

Canto III, line 309
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“This Light inspires, and plays upon
The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
As through a Trunk, or whisp'ring hole,
Such language as no mortal Ear
But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”

Canto III, line 547. Sometimes misreported as "is convinced" instead of "complies"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 11
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“That each man Swore to do his best,
To damn and perjure all the rest!
And bid the Devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.”

Zdroj: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“Still amorous and fond and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.”

Samuel Butler (poet) Hudibras

Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Kontext: Shall we that in the Cov'nant swore,
Each man of us to run before
Another, still in Reformation,
Give dogs and bears a dispensation?
How will Dissenting Brethren relish it?
What will malignants say? videlicet,
That each man Swore to do his best,
To damn and perjure all the rest!
And bid the Devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.

“Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies,
The sot assumes the rule of wit, and cowards make the base submit.”

Canto I, line 687
Zdroj: Hudibras, Part III (1678)