16 ordspråk av George Borrow
George Borrow
George Borrow föddes den July 5th 1803 och dog den 26 July 1881 - English linguist
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 A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. |
| I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. |
| I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people . . . |
| If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. |
| If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. |
| It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness |
| It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness |
| Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. |
| Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day. |
| The author of `Amelia' [Fielding], the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret. |
| The genuine spirit of localism. |
| There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. |
| There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? |
| Translation is at best an echo. |
| Two great talkers will not travel far together. |
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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