Предисловие к книге Шарля Саролеа «Письма о польских делах» (Introduction to Charles Sarolea’s Letters on Polish affairs)
I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing truth that their enemies were the enemies of magnanimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred; and the judgment has proved to be right.
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Father Michael in spite of his years, and in spite of his asceticism (or because of it, for all I know), was a very healthy and happy old gentleman. And as he swung on a bar above the sickening emptiness of air, he realized, with that sort of dead detachment which belongs to the brains of those in peril, the deathless and hopeless contradiction which is involved in the mere idea of courage. He was a happy and healthy old gentleman and therefore he was quite careless about it. And he felt as every man feels in the taut moment of such terror that his chief danger was terror itself; his only possible strength would be a coolness amounting to carelessness, a carelessness amounting almost to a suicidal swagger. His one wild chance of coming out safely would be in not too desperately desiring to be safe.
Шар и крест (1909)
эссе «Юмор» (сборник «Вкус к жизни»)
It is thus a term which not only refuses to be defined, but in a sense boasts of being indefinable; and it would commonly be regarded as a deficiency in humour to search for a definition of humour.
Этот перевод ждет рассмотрения.
Правильный ли перевод?
„Приключения могут быть безумными, герой их должен быть разумен.“
Глава 4
Глава 4
The adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
Человек, который был Четвергом (1908)
„Зло подкрадывается, как болезнь. Добро прибегает запыхавшись, как врач.“
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
He discovered the fact that all romantics know...that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
Исключительная изобретательность Еноха Оутса
We ought not to have all gone mad at once. We ought to have taken it in turns to go mad. Then I could have been shocked at his behaviour on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and he could have been shocked at my behaviour on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. But there is no moral value in going mad when nobody is shocked.
Охотничьи рассказы (1925)