Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch: (Dublin, 15 July 1919 – Oxford, 8 February 1999). Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to alter her text.… Lees verder Iris Murdoch

There’s nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

Words that weep and tears that speak.

Listen to people who know more than you do. Then do it your own way.

Walter ‘Walt’ Whitman: (West Hills (New York), 31 May 1819 – Camden (New Jersey), 26 March 1892). American poet, journalist and essayist whose poetry collection Leaves of Grass marked a milestone in the history of American literature. He is what Americans call a ‘self-made’ man: he started out as an errand boy in a law… Lees verder Walt Whitman

Sun Tzu: (also called Sunzi). (Huimin, c. 544 BC – ?, c. 496 BC). General and military strategist of the Chinese kingdom of Wu during the Period of Spring and Autumn (771 – 476 BC). He is traditionally considered the author of the book The Art of War. There is no instance of a country… Lees verder Sun Tzu

If drunk people start telling you the truth, you’ll have to get yourself more drunk soon.

Henrik Johan Ibsen: (Skien, 20 March 1828 – Kristiania, 23 May 1906). Norwegian playwright and poet. Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and… Lees verder Henrik Ibsen

The new Germany is a democracy. Such was the old Germany, or tried to be: but then the Nazis came and all hell broke loose. Hell can break loose anywhere: all people have hellish tendencies.

John Ernst Steinbeck: (Salinas (California), 27 February 1902 – New York, 20 December 1968). American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Over the course of his career, Steinbeck wrote twenty-seven books: sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. But I do feel strange – almost unearthly. I’ll… Lees verder John Steinbeck