Jerome Klapka Jerome: Frasi in inglese

Jerome Klapka Jerome era scrittore e giornalista britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

"On Being Idle".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period. Even if his own inward strength does not throw it off, the rubbings of the world generally smooth it down.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“And fighting the battle of life is fighting against fearful odds, too. There are giants and dragons in this nineteenth century, and the golden casket that they guard is not so easy to win as it appears in the story-books.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men — more so, if possible.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

"On Vanity and Vanities".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.”

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Jerome K. Jerome

Dreams http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/jjdrm10.txt

“There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right — except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.”

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Clocks http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/jjclk10.txt.

“There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro Tre uomini a zonzo

Three Men on the Bummel (1900).

“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us who live in cozy homes, with all the graces and pleasures of life around us, that the dwellers in damp cellars and windy attics should creep from their dens of misery into the warmth and glare of the public-house bar, and seek to float for a brief space away from their dull world upon a Lethe stream of gin. But think, before you hold up your hands in horror at their ill-living, what "life" for these wretched creatures really means. Picture the squalid misery of their brutish existence, dragged on from year to year in the narrow, noisome room where, huddled like vermin in sewers, they welter, and sicken, and sleep; where dirt-grimed children scream and fight and sluttish, shrill-voiced women cuff, and curse, and nag; where the street outside teems with roaring filth and the house around is a bedlam of riot and stench. Think what a sapless stick this fair flower of life must be to them, devoid of mind and soul. The horse in his stall scents the sweet hay and munches the ripe corn contentedly. The watch-dog in his kennel blinks at the grateful sun, dreams of a glorious chase over the dewy fields, and wakes with a yelp of gladness to greet a caressing hand. But the clod-like life of these human logs never knows one ray of light. From the hour when they crawl from their comfortless bed to the hour when they lounge back into it again they never live one moment of real life. Recreation, amusement, companionship, they know not the meaning of. Joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, love, friendship, longing, despair, are idle words to them. From the day when their baby eyes first look out upon their sordid world to the day when, with an oath, they close them forever and their bones are shoveled out of sight, they never warm to one touch of human sympathy, never thrill to a single thought, never start to a single hope. In the name of the God of mercy; let them pour the maddening liquor down their throats and feel for one brief moment that they live!”

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro Tre uomini in barca

Origine: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 10.

“Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.”

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet. Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Contesto: It is well, dear ladies, for us old sinners that you study only books. Did you read mankind, you would know that the lad's shy stammering tells a truer tale than our bold eloquence. A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach. Indeed, a man's sluggish current may not be called love, compared with the rushing fountain that wells up when a boy's heart is struck with the heavenly rod. If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet. Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves.

“Nothing—so it seems to me…is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. … The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer.”

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"The Passing of the Third Floor Back" (1908).

“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro They and I

They and I (1909), Ch. 2.

“What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, that sail. But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro Tre uomini in barca

Origine: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 15.

“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

"On Getting On in the World".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

"On Being Idle".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“It always is wretched weather according to us. The weather is like the government — always in the wrong. In summer-time we say it is stifling; in winter that it is killing; in spring and autumn we find fault with it for being neither one thing nor the other and wish it would make up its mind…We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

"On the Weather".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

“Conceit is the finest armor that a man can wear. Upon its smooth, impenetrable surface the puny dagger-thrusts of spite and envy glance harmlessly aside. Without that breast-plate the sword of talent cannot force its way through the battle of life, for blows have to be borne as well as dealt.”

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Jerome K. Jerome libro I pensieri oziosi di un ozioso

"On Being Shy".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)