Alain-René Lesage Frasi e Citazioni
“Ci fecero fare la pace; ci abbracciammo, e da allora siamo nemici mortali.”
Origine: Da Le Diable boiteux, III; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Ettore Barelli e Sergio Pennacchietti, BUR, 2013.
Alain-René Lesage: Frasi in inglese
“Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.”
Book VII, ch. 3.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
Book X, ch. 1. Earlier written by Elliot, Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35 (1747). Translated by Tobias George Smollett, Translation of Gil Blas, Book x, Chapter 1.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”
Book VII, ch. 4.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”
Book III, ch. 11. Compare: "The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas, in Sheridaniana.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
Book VIII, ch. 9. Compare: "What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly", François Rabelais, Works, Book V, ch. 11.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”
Book IV, ch. 7.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
Book XII, ch. 7. Compare: "A flat case as plain as a pack-staff", Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (1602-07), Act v, Scene 3.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
