Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

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“Every woman is a rebel.”

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Lo stile è sapere chi sei, sapere cosa vuoi dire e fregartene di tutto

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”
Tieni sempre una mente aperta e un cuore compassionevole.

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Fai sempre ciò che è giusto. Gratificherà metà del genere umano e stupirà l'altra metà.

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Di tutte le forme di cautela, la cautela in amore è forse la più fatale per la vera felicità.

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Quando è abbastanza buio, puoi vedere le stelle.

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Vorrei, tanto quanto tutti gli altri, essere perfettamente felice; ma, come tutti gli altri, deve essere a modo mio.

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Perdere un genitore è sfortuna, ma perderli entrambi è sbadataggine.

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Collezionavo quelle poche proprietà personali che... Ritenevo inestimabili: il mio gatto, la mia risolutezza nel viaggiare, e la mia solitudine.

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.”
L'uomo ha tre modi di agire saggiamente. Innanzitutto, sulla meditazione; che è il più nobile. In secondo luogo, sull'imitazione; che è il più semplice. In terzo luogo, sull'esperienza; che è il più amaro.

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Un giorno, guardandoti indietro, gli anni di lotta ti sembreranno soprendentemente i più belli.

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
Dio fece il cibo, ma certo il diavolo fece i cuochi.

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
Tutti gli uomini hanno paura, ma i coraggiosi mettono da parte le loro paure e vanno avanti, a volte fino alla morte, ma sempre alla vittoria.

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”
Lascia che niente ti turbi, niente ti spaventi. Tutto passa. Dio non cambia. La pazienza ottiene tutto.

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
Non essere "uno scrittore". Scrivi.

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
I pescatori sanno che il mare è pericoloso e la tempesta terribile, ma non hanno mai trovato questi pericoli, una ragione sufficiente per restare a riva.

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
Sono la creatura più felice del mondo. Forse altre persone lo hanno già detto prima, ma non con una tale giustizia. Sono più felice persino di Jane; lei sorride soltanto, io rido.

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Piccola", dissi, "sono un genio ma nessuno lo sa all'infuori di me.

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Un osso dato al cane non è carità: carità è l'osso spartito col cane quando avete fame come lui.

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”

“Independence is happiness.”

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Qualsiasi cosa la mente dell'uomo possa concepire e crederci, può essere raggiunta.

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
Lei non credeva in nulla; solo il suo scetticismo le impediva di essere atea.

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”