Оливер Херфорд знаменитые цитаты
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.
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Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 69.
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Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
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“Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.”
The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986), p. 9.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
Misattributed
“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.
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“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
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“I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.”
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
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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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