“All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them.”
Rowan Atkinson (1955) English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
As quoted in a letter to The Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times (2018)
Citáty, ktorým rozumiem
Pokusy o preklady z angličtiny
“The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!”
Rowan Atkinson (1955) English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Zdroj: Blackadder II: Complete Series
Rowan Atkinson (1955) English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
As quoted in an interview with entertainment.ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment.ie (2018)
“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying”
Rowan Atkinson (1955) English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 93 (16 June 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Attributed to Addison in (K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication (2005), by Gloria Pierre, p. 120, there are no indications of such a statement in Addison's writings.
Misattributed
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
As quoted in Hugs for Girlfriends : Stories, Sayings, and Scriptures to Encourage and Inspire (2001) by Philis Boultinghouse and LeAnn Weiss, p. 7; there seem to be no published sources available for this statement prior to 2001.
Disputed
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
The earliest appearance of this proverb yet located is in Eliza Cook's Journal Vol. 11, (1854), p. 128, and the earliest attribution to Addison yet found is in Public Ledger Almanac (1887), p. 20.
Disputed
Zdroj: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Era/XD8DAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=addison%20%22hope%20your%20guardian%20genius%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=addison%20%22hope%20your%20guardian%20genius%22 Many Thoughts of Many Minds
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 166 (10 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Kontext: Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
“What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 177 (22 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Kontext: I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose; What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
“A new creation rises to my sight”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
A Letter from Italy (1703).
Kontext: Fain would I Raphael's godlike art rehearse,
And show th' immortal labours in my verse,
Where from themingled strength of shade and light
A new creation rises to my sight,
Such heavenly figures from his pencil flow,
So warm with life his blended colours glow.
From theme to theme with secret pleasure tost,
Amidst the soft variety I 'm lost:
Here pleasing airs my ravish'd soul confound
With circling notes and labyrinths of sound;
Here domes and temples rise in distant views,
And opening palaces invite my Muse.
“What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!”
Joseph Addison kniha Cato
Act IV, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Kontext: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 225.
The Tatler (1711–1714)
Kontext: There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
“Music religious heat inspires,
It wakes the soul, and lifts it high”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692), st. 4.
Kontext: Music religious heat inspires,
It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,
And wings it with sublime desires,
And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
Joseph Addison kniha Cato
Act II, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Kontext: My voice is still for war.
Gods! Can a Roman senate long debate
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
No, let us rise at once,
Gird on our swords, and,
At the head of our remaining troops, attack the foe,
Break through the thick array of his throng'd legions,
And charge home upon him.
Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest,
May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.
“Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1699), st. 4.
Kontext: Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,
Play all the concert o'er again.
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692), st. 3.
“Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 453 (9 August 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Kontext: When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.
“When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Thoughts in Westminster Abbey (1711).
Kontext: When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
“Cheerfulness is…the best promoter of health.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 387 (24 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 112 (9 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Independence Day address (1821)
Kontext: And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Oration on Lafayette (1834)
Kontext: There have doubtless been, in all ages, men, whose discoveries or inventions, in the world of matter or of mind, have opened new avenues to the dominion of man over the material creation; have increased his means or his faculties of enjoyment; have raised him in nearer approximation to that higher and happier condition, the object of his hopes and aspirations in his present state of existence.
Lafayette discovered no new principle of politics or of morals. He invented nothing in science. He disclosed no new phenomenon in the laws of nature. Born and educated in the highest order of feudal Nobility, under the most absolute Monarchy of Europe, in possession of an affluent fortune, and master of himself and of all his capabilities at the moment of attaining manhood, the principle of republican justice and of social equality took possession of his heart and mind, as if by inspiration from above. He devoted himself, his life, his fortune, his hereditary honors, his towering ambition, his splendid hopes, all to the cause of liberty. He came to another hemisphere to defend her. He became one of the most effective champions of our Independence; but, that once achieved, he returned to his own country, and thenceforward took no part in the controversies which have divided us. In the events of our Revolution, and in the forms of policy which we have adopted for the establishment and perpetuation of our freedom, Lafayette found the most perfect form of government. He wished to add nothing to it.
“This is the last of Earth! I am content.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Last words (21 February 1848)
“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”
Kóbó Abe kniha The Woman in the Dunes
Zdroj: The Woman in the Dunes
“Being free always involves being lonely.”
Kóbó Abe (1924–1993) Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
Kóbó Abe kniha The Woman in the Dunes
Zdroj: The Woman in the Dunes