Walter Raleigh citáty a výroky
Walter Raleigh: Citáty anglicky
"A Farewell to the Vanities of the World" http://www.bartleby.com/331/467.html, lines 3–7. Author uncertain. Attributed to Henry Wotton and to Raleigh.
Attributed
“Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.”
Zdroj: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter IV
A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c
His Own Epitaph, written the night before his execution (1618) and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Zdroj: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tnk8RpOFWw "Even Such is Time" — Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.”
Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.
Attributed
Zdroj: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (1599), st. 1–2
Inspired by Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
The Silent Lover, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
George Wither, "The Lover's Resolution" http://www.bartleby.com/101/237.html.
Misattributed
Zdroj: The Cabinet Council (published 1658), Chapter 25
