Jonathan Swift najznámejšie citáty

„Každý si želá dlho žiť, ale nikto nechce byť starý.“
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Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
„Jeden nepriateľ ťa môže zraniť skôr, ako desať priateľov spraví pre teba niečo dobré.“
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Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
Jonathan Swift Citáty o ľuďoch
Jonathan Swift Citáty o živote
„Drobné starosti stačia na to, aby nám otrávili život, ak nemáme veľké.“
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Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
Jonathan Swift citáty a výroky
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Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
„Dokiaľ nevyhrávam, samozrejme že plačem, pretože karty sú zlé zamiešané.“
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Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
„Existujú márniví muži, ktorí sú hrdí na tie, ktoré im nasadzujú parohy.“
Varianta: Jestvujú márniví muži, ktorí sú hrdí na tých, čo im nasadzujú parohy.
Jonathan Swift: Citáty v angličtine
Imitation of Horace, book ii. Sat. 6.; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
On a Dull Writer, reported in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Alternately attributed to Alexander Pope by Bartlett's Quotations, 10th Edition (1919). Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303
Disputed
“As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March, 1753)
Misattributed
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (1709)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754, published posthumously)
“The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Conversation
“He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.”
Sect. 11
A Tale of a Tub (1704)