Citações e frases inglesas

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“Every woman is a rebel.”
Toda mulher é uma rebelde.

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Estilo é saber quem você é, o que você quer dizer, e não dar a mínima.

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Para se erguer das suas próprias cinzas, uma Fénix primeiro tem de arder.

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Uma pessoa será tão feliz quanto sua mente decidir.

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Eu destruo meus inimigos quando faço deles meus amigos.

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Pois não foi no meu ouvido que você sussurrou, mas no meu coração. Não foi meus lábios que você beijou, mas minha alma.

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
O meu melhor amigo é a pessoa que me dará um livro que eu ainda não li.

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Perder um pai ou uma mãe, senhor Worthing, pode ser considerado um infortúnio; mas perder ambos parece descuido.

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Se estivermos suficientemente quietos e preparados, encontraremos compensações em cada decepção.

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
Não tenha medo do fracasso. - Não o fracasso, mas a falta de objetivo, é o crime. Em grandes tentativas, é glorioso até fracassar.

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.”

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Um dia, em retrospecto, os anos de luta lhe parecerão os mais belos.

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Os filósofos apenas interpretam o mundo, de várias maneiras. A questão, porém, é mudá-lo.

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Existem apenas os perseguidos, os perseguidores, os ocupados e os cansados.

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Não existe nenhum pecado, a não ser a estupidez.

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Os pescadores sabem que o mar é perigoso e que a tempestade é terrível, mas eles nunca julgaram esses perigos como razão suficiente para permanecer em terra.

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
As grandes coisas não são feitas por impulso, mas através de uma série de pequenas coisas acumuladas.

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Devemos aprender a viver juntos como irmãos ou perecer juntos como tolos.

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
As ações dos homens são as melhores intérpretes de seus pensamentos.

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
Não se deve confiar nunca na mulher que nos diga a sua verdadeira idade. A mulher que o faça é capaz de dizer tudo.

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Se eu tivesse nove horas para cortar uma árvore, passaria seis horas afiando o meu machado

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
"Baby", eu disse. "Eu sou um gênio, mas ninguém sabe disso, só eu."

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Dar um osso a um cão não é caridade. A caridade é partilhar o osso com o cão quando estás tão faminto como ele.

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
Equilibre seus pensamentos com ação. - Se você gastar muito tempo pensando em algo, nunca conseguirá realizá-la.

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
Nunca explique - seus amigos não precisam disso e seus inimigos não vão acreditar em você.

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”

“Independence is happiness.”

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Tudo o que a mente humana pode conceber, ela pode conquistar.

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Algumas coisas são mais preciosas exatamente porque elas não duram muito.

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”