Frasi di Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh è stato uno scrittore britannico.

È conosciuto per i suoi romanzi satirici: Declino e caduta, L'inviato speciale, Una manciata di polvere e Il caro estinto sono i più famosi. Nelle sue opere più personali si può distinguere l'influenza della sua biografia e della sua conversione al cattolicesimo.

Molte delle opere dell'autore criticano l'aristocrazia e l'alta società britanniche, bersagliati dalla sua satira. Ma tali opere dimostrano che l'alta società, paradossalmente, ha sempre giocato una forte attrazione sull'autore. Waugh inoltre ha scritto racconti, tre biografie e il primo volume di un'autobiografia incompiuta. Anche i suoi racconti di viaggio e i suoi numerosi diari sono stati pubblicati. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Ottobre 1903 – 10. Aprile 1966   •   Altri nomi Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
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Declino e caduta
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Evelyn Waugh frasi celebri

Evelyn Waugh Frasi e Citazioni

“Quando la gente odia con tanta foga, vuol dire che odia qualcosa che ha dentro di sé.”

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Evelyn Waugh: Frasi in inglese

“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”

Evelyn Waugh libro Vile Bodies

Origine: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“Was anyone hurt?”

Evelyn Waugh libro A Handful of Dust

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
First lines
A Handful of Dust (1934)

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”

Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”

Evelyn Waugh libro Il caro estinto

Origine: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Contesto: In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“O God, make me good, but not yet”

Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“To understand all is to forgive all.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“… for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”

Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“I can't bare you when you're not amusing.”

Evelyn Waugh libro Vile Bodies

Origine: Vile Bodies

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”

Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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