Оливер Херфорд знаменитые цитаты
„Заключение брака: формальность, необходимая для получения развода.“
Оливер Херфорд и Джон Клей
„Возраст, как расстояние: придаёт двойное очарование.“
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one; go ahead, get married.
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Оливер Херфорд цитаты
„Такт — это такая ложь о других, какой хотели бы вы, когда они лгут о вас.“
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
„Женский разум чище, чем мужской: она меняет его чаще.“
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Оливер Херфорд: Цитаты на английском языке
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
Attributed
“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
Attributed
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 69.
Attributed
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
Attributed
“Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.”
The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986), p. 9.
Attributed
“There is no time like the pleasant.”
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
Misattributed
“Many are called but few get up.”
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
“Age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
Misattributed
“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.”
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
Attributed
“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
Attributed
“I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.”
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
Attributed
The Altogether New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907 (1906).
“Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”
Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 72 (1955), p. 156.
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