Сборник цитат из произведений Джона Голсуорси
Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин
Настоящий сборник цитат из произведений известного английского автора Джона Голсуорси, написанных им в начале 20 века. Голсуорси был видной фигурой на литературной сцене своего века, и его произведения углубляются в сложности человеческой природы. Сборник предлагает заглянуть в сложные образы персонажей, которыми славится Голсуорси, демонстрируя цитаты, которые отражают его исследования любви, красоты и влияния общественных норм на жизнь отдельных людей. Цитаты взяты из таких крупных произведений, как «Сага о Форсайтах», а также из его эссе и пьес.
Виктор Никитин
Сборник цитат из произведений Джона Голсуорси
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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QUESTION I.
WHAT ARE YOU?
1. I am Sir Oracle,
And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.
2. A woman: and for secrecy,
No lady closer.
Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 3.
3. I am so full of business, I cannot answer thee acutely.
All’s Well That Ends Well. Act i. Scene 1.
4. A braver soldier never couched lance,
A gentler heart did never sway in court.
Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Scene 2.
5. Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.
Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.
6. Infirm of purpose!
Macbeth. Act ii. Scene 2.
7. Being a woman, I will not be slack
To play my part in fortune’s pageant.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 2.
8. But man, proud man!
Drest in a little brief authority.
Measure for Measure. Act ii. Scene 2.
9. To answer every man directly, and briefly,
Wisely, and truly. Wisely I say, I am a bachelor.
Julius Caesar. Act iii. Scene 3.
10. Perfect.
Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.
11. A man, who is the abstract of all faults
That all men follow.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Scene 4.
12. A woman of an invincible spirit.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 4.
13. A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.
14. A promise-breaker.
Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 8.
15. A man, worth any woman.
Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.
16. A railing wife.
Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.
17. I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and
besides myself.
Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Scene 2.
18. I am the very pink of courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 4.
19. An angel! or, if not,
An earthly paragon!
Cymbeline. Act iii. Scene 6.
20. As opposite to every good,
As the antipodes.
Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 4.
* * *
QUESTION II.
WHAT QUALITY OR QUALITIES IN OTHERS AMONG YOU?
1. A quietness of spirit.
Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Scene 1.
2. Good, your highness, patience.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.
3. Faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’t is shown.
Timon of Athens. Act i. Scene 2.
4. Liberal thanks.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
5. Shallow spirit of judgment.
Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.
6. That glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not.
King Lear. Act i. Scene 1.
7. The slanderous tongue.
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.
8. A patient sufferance.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act i. Scene 3.
9. Sweet words,
Low crooked curt’sies, and base spaniel fawning.
Julius Caesar. Act iii. Scene 1.
10. Defect of manners, want of government,
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain.
Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.
11. Ingratitude!
King Lear. Act i. Scene 4.
12. Back-wounding calumny.
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.
13. Modest stillness and humility.
Henry V. Act iii. Scene 1.
14. Self-harming jealousy!
Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Scene 1.
15. Fear and doting.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 9.
16. Vaulting ambition.
Macbeth. Act i. Scene 7.
17. Scorn, and defiance; slight regard, contempt.
Henry V. Act ii. Scene 4.
18. Vainness, and self-glorious pride.
Henry V. Act v. Chorus.
19. A base, ignoble mind.
Henry VI. Part II. Act ii. Scene 1.
20. A mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool’d.
Hamlet. Act i. Scene 2.
* * *
QUESTION III.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE OCCUPATION OR PURSUIT?
1. To discover islands far away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 3.
2. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat
and drink, make the beds, and do all myself.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Scene 4.
3. My brain, more busy than the laboring spider,
Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 1.
4. The disposing of new dignities.
Julius Caesar. Act iii. Scene 1.
5. Billiards.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.
6. Methinks, it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.
7. Steal hearts.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
8. To outlook conquest, and to win renown,
Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
King John. Act v. Scene 2.
9. Quaint lies,
How honorable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died.
Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Scene 4.
10. A ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver.
Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Scene 3.
11. A mender of bad soles.
Julius Caesar. Act i. Scene 1.
12. No women’s matters.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 3.
13. Eating and drinking.
Twelfth Night. Act ii. Scene 3.
14. Why, sir, a carpenter.
Julius Caesar. Act i. Scene 1.
15. To be in love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.
16. To number Ave-Maries.
Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Scene 3.
17. Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 1.
18. Give me mine angle,—We’ll to the river; there,
My music playing far off, I will betray
Tawny-finn’d fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
Their slimy jaws.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.
19. A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
Julius Caesar. Act ii. Scene 1.
20. To carve out dials quaintly, point by point.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.
* * *
QUESTION IV.
WHAT IS YOUR PET AVERSION?
1. A woman’s tongue.
Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Scene 2.
2. Marriage.
Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 5.
3. The lover,
Sighing like furnace.
As You Like It. Act ii. Scene 7.
4. Women and fools.
King John. Act ii. Scene 1.
5. The first bringer of unwelcome news.
Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.
6. Sleek-headed men.
Julius Caesar. Act i. Scene 2.
7. The livery of a nun.
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 1.
8. A lady’s tears.
King John. Act v. Scene 2.
9. Unbidden guests.
Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 2.
10. A good rebuke.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 7.
11. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Troilus and Cressida. Act v. Scene 3.
12. A younker, prancing to his love.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.
13. To climb steep hills.
Henry VIII. Act i. Scene 1.
14. A fawning greyhound.
Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 6.
15. A twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
King John. Act iii. Scene 4.
16. Coy looks,
With heart-sore sighs.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.
17. To be suspected of more tenderness
Than doth become a man!
Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.
18. To fight with you.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
19. My wife,
I would you had her spirit in such another;
The third o’ the world is yours; which with a snaffle
You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 2.
20. A silly woman.
Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 1.
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