Lavori
Ritorno a Brideshead
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh frasi celebri
“La giustizia […] è la capacità di considerare ogni caso come un problema interamente nuovo.”
Origine: Lady Margot, p. 198
dialogo fra Mr. Corker e Mr. William Boot, libro II, Stones 20 £, cap. 1, XI
L'inviato speciale
Origine: Nome gergale dato nel testo al gruppo di inviati speciali concentrati in una determinata zona per il medesimo motivo.
Evelyn Waugh Frasi e Citazioni
L'inviato speciale
“È un istinto naturale di ritirarsi davanti all'ignoto.”
Il caro estinto
dialogo fra Mr. W. Boot e un funzionario coloniale francese, libro I, The Stitch service, cap. 5, I
L'inviato speciale
“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
Origine: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1
“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”
Diary entry (5 October 1962)
“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”
Origine: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1
"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)
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
“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
Origine: Vile Bodies
“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”
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.
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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
“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
Origine: Vile Bodies
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
Origine: Vile Bodies (1930)
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
“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