Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”
È meglio avere un amore infelice che un matrimonio infelice, ma alcune persone riescono ad averli entrambi.

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
Tutto con moderazione, compresa la moderazione.

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
Io penso che, in un modo o nell'altro, arriviamo a conoscere chi realmente siamo e poi viviamo con quella consapevolezza.

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Rifiuta il senso di infortunio e l'infortunio stesso scompare.

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”
Cammino in modo sensuale? Non so, ho imparato a farlo da bambina. Da allora non ho più preso lezioni

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

“Books are a narcotic.”

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
„Non aveva mai capito che senso avesse fare a pezzi le persone, come faceva Clarissa Dalloway - farle a pezzi e poi rimetterle assieme.“

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
C'è una testardaggine in me che non può mai sopportare di essere spaventata dalla volontà degli altri. Il mio coraggio sorge sempre ad ogni tentativo di intimidirmi.

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”

“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.”

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

“Play it fuckin' loud!”

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”

“History is written by the victors.”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
Il problema è la mancanza di scopo, non la mancanza di tempo. Tutti quanti abbiamo giorni di ventiquattr'ore!

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
La vita è la ballerina e tu sei il ballo.

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
Puoi giudicare il vero carattere di un uomo dal modo in cui tratta i suoi animali da compagnia.

“We must keep moving. If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
Tutto ciò di cui hai bisogno in questa vita è ignoranza a autostima, e il successo è garantito.

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

“What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself…”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
Sono nato perduto e non provo piacere nell'essere trovato.

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
Non vi illudete […]. I figli all'inizio amano i genitori, ma poi li giudicano; raramente, forse mai, li perdonano.

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Le emozioni non espresse non muoiono mai. Loro sono sepolte vive e verranno fuori nei modi peggiori.

“When you're drowning you don't think, You just scream.”

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Non riesco a ricordare i libri che ho letto più dei pasti che ho mangiato; anche se essi mi hanno formato.

“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
Se solo sorridi, scoprirai che vale ancora la pena di vivere.

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”