цитаты мейдена
Прочитал сборник цитат и афоризмов английского беллетриста Джеффри Мейдена (Geoffrey Madan, 1897-1945). Мейден вел дневник цитат и афоризмов, чужих и своих; в английской традиции это называют Commonplace book, и посмертное издание избранных мест из этого дневника назвали в рецензии "лучшим примером Commonplace book 20-го века".
Многое понравилось. Вот моя, в свою очередь, выжимка (из сборника избранных мест, так что, выходит, выборка второго порядка) из 27 наиболее понравившихся афоризмов из этой книги.
Sir John Simon, supposed in a Times article to be 78 instead of 77, describing it as a ‘wounding error’.
Martin Routh (1755-1854), President of the Magdalene College of Oxford,
overheard in 1849 by Pusey: the ‘late troubles’: discovered to refer to
the revolution of 1688.
Mahaffy, asked by a young man in a Dublin street if he was saved,
paused and answered: ‘I am, but between you and me, it was a
damned close squeak.’
Lady on a hot day in Cairo: ‘Ninety-two this morning, Colonel
Lawrence! Ninety-two. What do you say to that?’
T. E. Lawrence: ‘Many happy returns of the day.’
Ce n’est qu’en cherchant les mots qu’on trouve les pensées.
Joubert
On one day in the week, if possible, neither read nor write
poetry. (Chinese Rule of Health)
Half-knowledge is very communicable; not so knowledge.
Mary Coleridge
Nothing has an uglier look to us than Reason, when it is not of
our side.
Lord Halifax
You can trust all Englishmen except those who talk French.
Bismarck
A man usually does his best work just before he is found out.
Dean Inge
‘With people like you, love only means one thing.’
‘No, it means twenty things: but it doesn’t mean nineteen.’
Arnold Bennett’s Journal
Les hommes qui pensent toujours ce qu’ils disent ont le tort de
se croire en droit de dire toujours ce qu’ils pensent. Charles Lemesle
George has introduced me to an American. I like him in a moderate
way. I told him I hated Englishmen because they were the only men
I knew. He does not understand this.
Keats, 31 January 1820
A Lancashire M.P.: ‘Liar.’
Under-Secretary: ‘My friend is anxious to protect me from what he
thinks is an inaccuracy.’
He once smoked a cigar; and found it so delicious that he never
smoked again.
Sir Leslie Stephen, of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
I am always glad when one of those fellows dies, for then I know I
have the whole of him on my shelf.
Lord Melbourne, speaking of Crabbe
Life is like playing a solo on the violin, and learning the instrument
as you go along.
Samuel Butler
I always tell a young man not to use the word ‘always’.
Robert Walpole
There is no bore like a brilliant bore.
Samuel Butler
Shakespeare should never be mentioned with an epithet.
Mrs. Trench (1815)
Horse-sense is something a horse has that prevents him betting on
people.
Father Mathew
Objecting to being prayed for : like someone saying, ‘I shall mention
your name to the Prime Minister when I next see him.’
A. C. Benson
‘Good. Now there’ll be more room in the car.’
H. W. B. Joseph: ‘Well, no, surely: not more room, only less of it
occupied.’
Margot: You're *fond* of me, and of Etty, and Blanchie: but you don’t
really care - you wouldn’t *mind* if we all died.
Balfour: I should mind if you all died on the same day.
Welsh sermon: the word ‘truth’ heard repeatedly uttered in English:
apparently ‘no exact equivalent’ in Welsh.
American girl on the Commandments: “They don’t tell you what
you ought to do: and they only put ideas into your head.’
Elizabeth Bibesco
Sir J. S. did not mind people looking at their watch during his
address, only minded their holding it up to their ear.
Многое понравилось. Вот моя, в свою очередь, выжимка (из сборника избранных мест, так что, выходит, выборка второго порядка) из 27 наиболее понравившихся афоризмов из этой книги.
Sir John Simon, supposed in a Times article to be 78 instead of 77, describing it as a ‘wounding error’.
Martin Routh (1755-1854), President of the Magdalene College of Oxford,
overheard in 1849 by Pusey: the ‘late troubles’: discovered to refer to
the revolution of 1688.
Mahaffy, asked by a young man in a Dublin street if he was saved,
paused and answered: ‘I am, but between you and me, it was a
damned close squeak.’
Lady on a hot day in Cairo: ‘Ninety-two this morning, Colonel
Lawrence! Ninety-two. What do you say to that?’
T. E. Lawrence: ‘Many happy returns of the day.’
Ce n’est qu’en cherchant les mots qu’on trouve les pensées.
Joubert
On one day in the week, if possible, neither read nor write
poetry. (Chinese Rule of Health)
Half-knowledge is very communicable; not so knowledge.
Mary Coleridge
Nothing has an uglier look to us than Reason, when it is not of
our side.
Lord Halifax
You can trust all Englishmen except those who talk French.
Bismarck
A man usually does his best work just before he is found out.
Dean Inge
‘With people like you, love only means one thing.’
‘No, it means twenty things: but it doesn’t mean nineteen.’
Arnold Bennett’s Journal
Les hommes qui pensent toujours ce qu’ils disent ont le tort de
se croire en droit de dire toujours ce qu’ils pensent. Charles Lemesle
George has introduced me to an American. I like him in a moderate
way. I told him I hated Englishmen because they were the only men
I knew. He does not understand this.
Keats, 31 January 1820
A Lancashire M.P.: ‘Liar.’
Under-Secretary: ‘My friend is anxious to protect me from what he
thinks is an inaccuracy.’
He once smoked a cigar; and found it so delicious that he never
smoked again.
Sir Leslie Stephen, of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
I am always glad when one of those fellows dies, for then I know I
have the whole of him on my shelf.
Lord Melbourne, speaking of Crabbe
Life is like playing a solo on the violin, and learning the instrument
as you go along.
Samuel Butler
I always tell a young man not to use the word ‘always’.
Robert Walpole
There is no bore like a brilliant bore.
Samuel Butler
Shakespeare should never be mentioned with an epithet.
Mrs. Trench (1815)
Horse-sense is something a horse has that prevents him betting on
people.
Father Mathew
Objecting to being prayed for : like someone saying, ‘I shall mention
your name to the Prime Minister when I next see him.’
A. C. Benson
‘Good. Now there’ll be more room in the car.’
H. W. B. Joseph: ‘Well, no, surely: not more room, only less of it
occupied.’
Margot: You're *fond* of me, and of Etty, and Blanchie: but you don’t
really care - you wouldn’t *mind* if we all died.
Balfour: I should mind if you all died on the same day.
Welsh sermon: the word ‘truth’ heard repeatedly uttered in English:
apparently ‘no exact equivalent’ in Welsh.
American girl on the Commandments: “They don’t tell you what
you ought to do: and they only put ideas into your head.’
Elizabeth Bibesco
Sir J. S. did not mind people looking at their watch during his
address, only minded their holding it up to their ear.