17 ordspråk av George Borrow

George Borrow

George Borrow föddes den 5 Juli 1803 och dog den 26 Juli 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.

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

Det har sagts att sysslolöshet är fadern till alla missdåd, vilket är sant; men missdåd i sig är endast ett försök att fly från det hemska vakum kallat sysslolöshet.

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

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.

Translation is at best an echo.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one

Youth

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.

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?

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