Kasutaja:Ehitaja/Lithubi 100 tsitaati
Emily Temple, "How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?", LitHub, February 24, 2021.
Autor | Pealkiri | Tsitaat inglise keeles | Pealkiri eesti keeles | Tsitaat eesti keeles | Tõlkija, aasta (kui on) | Kas meil tsitaat on? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. | "Lugu kahest linnast" | - | on ainult adapteeritud tõlge | ei |
Robert Frost | “The Road Not Taken” | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— |
on tõlge | ? | ||
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. | "Uhkus ja eelarvamus" | Eks ole üldiselt teada, et varakal vallalisel mehel on tingimata naist vaja. (lk 1) | Henno Rajandi, 1985 | on |
Emily Dickinson | “Because I could not stop for Death – (479)” | Because I could not stop for Death – |
on tõlge, Kareva? | ? | ||
J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. | "Kuristik rukkis" | on tõlge | ei | |
James Joyce | "Ulysses" | …and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. | "Ulysses" | ei veel | ei | |
Lev Tolstoi | "Anna Karenina" | Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. | "Anna Karenina" | on tõlge | ? | |
Franz Kafka | "The Metamorphosis" | As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. | "Metamorfoos (Kafka)" | on tõlge | ei? | |
Jack Kerouac | "On The Road" | The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. | "Teel" | on tõlge | ei | |
Sylvia Plath | "The Bell Jar" | I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. | "[[]]" | on tõlge | ei? | |
T. S. Eliot | "The Hollow Men" | This is the way the world ends |
"[[]]" | ? | ei? | |
Albert Camus | "The Stranger" | Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. | "Võõras (Camus)" | on tõlge | ei | |
Jamaica Kincaid | "Girl" | ... this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don’t like, and that way something bad won’t fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man; and if this doesn’t work there are other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn’t fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread? | "[[]]" | ei? | ei | |
William Carlos Williams | "This is Just to Say" | I have eaten |
"[[]]" | vist on? | ei | |
Virginia Woolf | "Mrs. Dalloway" | Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. | "Proua Dalloway" | on tõlge | ei? | |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | "The Little Prince" | The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. | "Väike prints" | on tõlge | ? | |
L. Frank Baum | "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" | A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. | "Võlur Oz" | on tõlge | ega vist | |
Lewis Carroll | "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" | Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | "Alice imedemaal" | Jaan Kross | ei? | |
Oscar Wilde | "Lady Windermere’s Fan" | We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. | "Lady Windermere'i lehvik" | teatritõlge on, aga trükitud? ETV telelavastusest saab | ||
Frank Herbert | "Dune" | I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. | "Düün" | jah | ||
Margaret Atwood | "The Handmaid’s Tale" | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. | "Teenijanna lugu" | tõlge on | ei | |
Maya Angelou | "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" | There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. | "Ma tean, miks puurilind laulab" | ei | ei | |
William Shakespeare | "As You Like It" | All the world’s a stage, |
"Nagu teile meeldib" | on tõlge | ei? | |
Herman Melville | "Moby-Dick" | Call me Ishmael. | "Moby Dick" | on tõlge | jah | |
Dylan Thomas | "Do not go gentle into that good night" | Do not go gentle into that good night, |
"[[]]" | Paul-Eerik Rummo, keegi veel? | ei? | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | "The Great Gatsby" | And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | "[[]]" | on tõlge | ei | |
Philip Larkin | "This Be the Verse" | They fuck you up, your mum and dad. |
"[[]]" | on tõlge | ei? | |
Walt Whitman | "Song of Myself" | I celebrate myself, and sing myself, |
"[[]]" | on tõlge | ei? | |
William Shakespeare | "Hamlet" | To be, or not to be: that is the question: |
"Hamlet" | on tõlge, isegi mitu | jah? | |
Harper Lee | "To Kill a Mockingbird" | I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. | "Tappa laulurästast" | on tõlge | ei | |
William Blake | "The Tyger" | Tyger Tyger, burning bright, |
"Tiiger" | mitu tõlget | ja kuidas veel | |
Zora Neale Hurston | "Their Eyes Were Watching God" | She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. | "[[]]" | ei | ei | |
William Butler Yeats | "The Second Coming" | Turning and turning in the widening gyre |
"[[]]" | Oras? Väljataga? | vist on? ei? | |
J. R. R. Tolkien | "The Hobbit" | There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. | "Kääbik" | on tõlge | ei? | |
Louisa May Alcott | "Little Women" | I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. | "Väikesed naised" | on tõlge | ei? | |
Daphne du Maurier | "Rebecca" | Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. | "Rebecca" | on tõlge | ? | |
J. K. Rowling | "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" | It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. | "[[]]" | on tõlge | ? | |
Victor Hugo | "Les Misérables" | It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live. | "Hüljatud" | on tõlge | ? | |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | "Kubla Khan" | In Xanadu did Kubla Khan |
"[[]]" | ? | ei vist? | |
J. R. R. Tolkien | "The Lord of the Rings" | Not all those who wander are lost. | "Sõrmuste isand" | on tõlge | ? | |
William Faulkner | "Requiem for a Nun" | The past is never dead. In fact, it’s not even past. | "[[]]" | ? | ei | |
S. E. Hinton | "The Outsiders" | Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. | "[[]]" | ei | ei | |
Kurt Vonnegut | "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" | Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” | "[[]]" | Tiina Randus, 2010 | ei | |
Ogden Nash | "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" | Candy |
"[[]]" | ei vist | ei | |
Vladimir Nabokov | "Lolita" | It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. | "Lolita" | on tõlge | ei | |
Alfred Tennyson | "In Memoriam A. H. H." | 'Tis better to have loved and lost |
"[[]]" | vist ei? | ei | |
Lorraine Hansberry | "A Raisin in the Sun" | There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. | "[[]]" | ei | ei | |
Gabriel García Márquez | "One Hundred Years of Solitude" | Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. | "Sada aastat üksildust" | on tõlge | ei | |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | "Sonnet 43" | How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. |
"[[]]" | sai nagu tõlgitud? | vist on? | |
Irvine Welsch | "Trainspotting" | Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye’ve produced. Choose life. | "[[]]" | on tõlge | ei | |
John Berryman | "Dream Song 14" | Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. | "[[]]" | vist ei | ei | |
Stephen King | "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" | Get busy living or get busy dying. | "[[]]" | ? | ei | |
Ralph Ellison | "Invisible Man" | "[[I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.]]" | ? | ei | ||
Charlotte Brontë | "Jane Eyre" | Reader, I married him. | "Jane Eyre" | on tõlge | ? | |
John Steinbeck | "Of Mice and Men" | Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. | "Hiirtest ja inimestest" | on tõlge (vist?) | ei | |
Toni Morrison | "Beloved" | You are your best thing. | "[[]]" | ? | ei? | |
Charles Dickens | "Great Expectations" | I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. | "[[]]" | on vist? | ei | |
e. e. cummings | "[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in]" | i carry your heart with me (i carry it in |
"[[]]" | vist ei? | ei | |
Maya Angelou | "Still I Rise" | You may shoot me with your words, |
"[[]]" | ei | ei | |
Arthur Miller | "The Crucible" | Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! | "[[]]" | ei? | ei | |
Alexandre Dumas vanem | "The Count of Monte Cristo" | He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: "Wait and Hope." | "Krahv Monte Cristo" | on tõlge | ei | |
George Orwell | "Animal Farm" | All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. | "Loomade farm" | Kõik loomad on võrdsed, kuid mõned on võrdsemad. | on tõlge | jah |
Robert Herrick, | "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, |
"[[]]" | ? | ei? | |
Langston Hughes | "Harlem" | What happens to a dream deferred? |
"Harlem" | ? | ei | |
Kurt Vonnegut | "Slaughterhouse-Five" | Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. | "Tapamaja, korpus viis" | on tõlge | vist ei | |
Edgar Allan Poe | "The Raven" | Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” |
"Ronk" | vist mitu | ei? | |
James Baldwin | "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" | Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. | "[[]]" | vist ei | ei | |
Elizabeth Bishop | "One Art" | The art of losing isn’t hard to master; |
"[[]]" | vist ei? | ei | |
William Shakespeare | "Twelfth Night" | Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. | "Kaheteistkümnes öö" | on tõlge | ei? | |
George Orwell | "1984" | War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. | "1984" | on tõlge | jah? | |
Douglas Adams | "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" | The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is ... 42. | "Pöidlaküüdi reisijuht Galaktikas" | vist on? | ? | |
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | "Paul Clifford" | It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. | "[[]]" | ? | ei | |
T. S. Eliot | "The Waste Land" | April is the cruellest month, breeding |
"Tühermaa"/Ahermaa | oleks nagu mitu tõlget? Rummo ja...Oras? | vist jah? | |
George R. R. Martin | "A Song of Ice and Fire" | Winter is coming. | "Jää ja tule laul" | on tõlge | jah, aga vajab viitamist | |
Allen Ginsberg | "Howl" | I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, |
"Ulg" | on tõlge | ei | |
Stephen Chbosky | "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" | And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. | "[[]]" | vist on | ei | |
Gwendolyn Brooks | "We Real Cool" | We real cool. We |
"[[]]" | ei vist | ei | |
Edward Albee | "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. | "Kes kardab Virginia Woolfi?" | on ju tõlge? | ei | |
Miguel de Cervantes | "Don Quixote" | Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. | "Don Quijote" | on tõlge | ei | |
John Keats | "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all |
"Ood kreeka urnile" | oleks nagu? | ei vist? | |
Ernest Hemingway | "The Sun Also Rises" | “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” | "Ja päike tõuseb" | on tõlge | ei | |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | "Ozymandias" | My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; |
"Ozymandias" | vist ise tõlkisin? | on siis või? | |
Ray Bradbury | "Fahrenheit 451" | It was a pleasure to burn. | "451° Fahrenheiti" | on tõlge | ei vist | |
Lewis Carroll | "The Walrus and the Carpenter" | The time has come, the Walrus said, |
"Morsk ja puusepp", rmt: "Alice imedemaal" (oli vist) | on tõlge | ei | |
David Foster Wallace | "Infinite Jest" | The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. | "[[]]" | oi ei | ei | |
Alfred Tennyson | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Half a league, half a league, |
"[[]]" | ? | ei | |
Bret Easton Ellis | "Less Than Zero" | People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. | "[[]]" | ei | ei | |
Seamus Heaney | "Digging" | Between my finger and my thumb |
"[[]]" | ? | ei | |
Emily Brontë | "Wuthering Heights" | Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same | "Vihurimäe" | on tõlge | seda vist ei ole? või on? | |
Paul Laurence Dunbar | "We Wear the Mask" | We wear the mask that grins and lies, |
"[[]]" | ei | ei | |
"The Bible" | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. | Piibel (kirjakoht?) | on | vist mitte | ||
Maurice Sendak | "Where the Wild Things Are" | “And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!” | "Seal, kus elavad metsakollid" | Enn Soosaar 1989, Leelo Märjamaa 2019 | ||
Robert Frost | "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | The woods are lovely, dark and deep, |
"[[]]" | on tõlge | ei vist? | |
Flannery O'Connor | "A Good Man is Hard to Find" | “She would’ve been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” | "[[]]" | kui ses ühes kogus ei ole, siis ei ole | ei? | |
William Wordsworth | "[I wandered lonely as a cloud]" | I wandered lonely as a cloud |
"Nartsissid" | on tõlge, vist mitu | ei? | |
Herman Melville | "Bartleby, the Scrivener" | I would prefer not to. | "[[]]" | ei? | ei | |
William Ernest Henley | "Invictus" | It matters not how strait the gate, |
"[[]]" | ei | ei | |
Alexander Pope | "An Essay on Criticism" | To err is human; to forgive, divine. | "[[]]" | vist ei? | pole kindel | |
Dr. Seuss | "Green Eggs and Ham" | I do not like them in a house. |
"[[]]" | ei (umbes kaks tema teost on tõlgitud) | ei | |
William Shakespeare | "Sonnet 18" | Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? |
"18. sonett" | on tõlge | ei vist |