Old English Quotes

• La mayoría de nosotros nos enfadaríamos si nos acusaran de ser "tontos". Pero la palabra "tonto" viene del inglés antiguo "selig", y su definición literal es "ser bendecido, feliz, sano y próspero".

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Meaningful, Silly

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Hay una palabra en inglés antiguo que pertenece por completo a esa civilización: "dusttsceawung", que significa contemplación del polvo. Es una imagen fiel de la mente anglosajona, o al menos un eco de aquella conciencia que consideraba la transciencia y la pérdida como parte del estado humano; era un mundo en el que la vida era incierta y la principal divinidad era el destino o "wyrd".

  Peter Ackroyd

  Destino, pérdida, suerte

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• The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Wall, Mean, Heaven

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• I've always used Old English in certain songs.

  Erik Rutan

  Song, Used, Certain

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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• Siempre estamos dando nombres extranjeros a cosas muy autóctonas. Si hay algo que apesta a la gloriosa tradición de la vieja taberna inglesa, es el queso tostado. Pero por alguna extraña razón lo llamamos rarebit galés. Creo que lo que llamamos estofado irlandés podría llamarse más bien estofado inglés, y que no es especialmente familiar en Irlanda.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Believe, Names

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Gratitude, Horse

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• It's kind of a cross between, I think. It's not, you know, over the top Old English, like Lord of the Rings would be or something like that, but there is a very sophisticated air about the Asgardians[?], you know, in their dialogue, and - hold on. Okay. Um, and I'm doing an English accent in the movie.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Thinking, Air, Would Be

  Fuente: collider.com

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• En inglés antiguo no se dice I had a dream, pero hay otro uso de la palabra: "la vida no es más que un sueño". Se dice con los ojos bien abiertos, no dormido. Pero no soy filósofo para explicarme. Ojalá pudiera. Quizá por eso soy músico.

  Tom Verlaine

  Sueño, Ojo, Deseo

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• The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Education, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

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• Me enamoré aún más de las leyendas de Tolkien después de estudiar literatura inglesa antigua en la universidad, ya que me hice una idea de los acontecimientos históricos y las culturas que Tolkien utilizó para crear su mundo. Mi lugar imaginario favorito es Lothlorien.

  Samantha Shannon

  Historical, Events, Culture

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• What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.

  Antero Alli

  Crazy, Real, Yarn

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• A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

  J. B. Priestley

  School, Men, Style

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• I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, Honor, Literature

  "Entrevista: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Entrevista con Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. 29 de octubre de 2011.

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• Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Home, Temptation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei Mihailescu (2000). “This Craft of Verse”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

  William Saroyan

  Wise, Art, Writing

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• It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

  Jim Broadbent

  Helping, Film

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• Cuando la alumna tiene la voz completamente controlada, puede dedicarse al repertorio lírico de Mendelssohn, canciones inglesas antiguas, etc. ¡Qué sencillas y encantadoras son!

  Alma Gluck

  Canción, Simple, Voz

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• Of the Black Prince [his son] at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. [Old English] Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.

  Eduardo III de Inglaterra

  Son, Winning, Boys

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• My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Apples, Pie, Pudding

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• The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Leadership, Sports, People

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• My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

  Frederik Pohl

  Different, Fiction, Literature

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• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Society, Church

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

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• Tiendo a ser analítico. Soy un antiguo licenciado en Filología Inglesa, así que me divierto desmenuzando textos y tratando de encontrar los secretos ocultos y los subtextos.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Fun, Secret, Trying

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