And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed
см. также Баба - только баба. С сигарой не сравнить и Р. Киплинг. Обрученный
see also more deadly than the male
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And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed
Куда упал? Да вниз, конечно,напрашивается сравнение Vanishing Point с уже навязшими в зубах Three Billboard - некоторые темы очень внятно пересекаются (это через 50 лет!).
Где люди по своим делам,
Стремясь упорно и поспешно,
Шагали по чужим телам.
“Wealth however got in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes:
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
- Daniel Defoe

Downtown, things'll be great when you'revia ohubelka
Downtown, no finer place for sure
Downtown, everything's waiting for you
Downtown
- Petula Clark
сбылась мечта идиота, посмотрел Scorned - какая херня господибожемой.Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
- The Mourning Bride
I get too hungry for dinner at eight
I like the theater but never come late
I never bother with people I hate
That's why the lady is a tramp
I don't like crapgames with Barons and Earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp
I like the free fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I'm broke, it's oke
Hates California is cold and is damp
That's why the lady is a tramp
- Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere By Ezra Pound
April is the cruellest monthsee also A baby called Somme
...
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
the waste land
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,как только название не корежили в переводе: Скорее мертвый, чем живой/Гораздо смертоноснее мужчин/Опаснее мужчины/Сатана в сатине (Не столько мужчина, сколько мертвец). тут варианты перевода названий всех его книг.
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
"I must leave here," said Lady De Vere,
"For these damp airs don't suit me, I fear."
Said her friend: "Goodness me!
If they don't agree
With your system, why eat pears, my dear?"
There was a young girl from Darjeeling
Who could dance with such exquisite feeling.
Not a murmur was heard,
Not a sound, not a word,
Save for fly buttons hitting the ceiling.
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On the breasts of a barmaid from Sale,
Were tattooed the prices of Ale.
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
The same information in Braille.
There was a young plumber of Leigh
Who was plumbing a maid by the sea.
Said the maid, “Cease your plumbing,
I hear someone coming.”
Said the plumber, still plumbing, “It's me.”
I haue her lost,
For all my cost,
Yet for all that I trowe
I haue perchaunce,
A fayre ryddaunce,
And am quyt of a shrew.
греческий
...two words are not considered a proper rhyme in English unless there is a different first consonant on the last accented syllable of both words - which makes possible the famous extravagant rhymes of Byron ("ladies intellectual/henpecked you all") and Ogden Nash ("the pelican/Whose beak holds more than his belly can"). - The Pleasures of Rimbaud by Charles Rosen in nyrb, August 18, 2011 / Volume LVIII, Number 13
Here's a toast to Screwy Dick,
The man who was born with a corkscrew prick.
He spent his life in a futile hunt,
To find a woman with a spiral cunt.
And when he did, he dropped stone dead,
'Cause the blasted thing had a left-hand thread!
- sameplace
Любил ебаться Дик. Вы скажете: "Так что ж?"
А то, что хуй его на штопор был похож.
Потратил бедный Дик огромные труды
На поиски в спираль закрученной пизды.
Нашел. И был сражен. О, горькая судьба!
У глупой той пизды налево шла резьба.
Mary had a little lamb,
It's fleece as white as snow.
It followed her to school one day,
And got fucked by a big black dog.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, Thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. - Humbert Wolfe, 1885-1940 ни взяткой, ни угрозой никогда британской прессе волю не сломать. но врут там так без всякого стыда, что взятки просто незачем давать.