Evelyn 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
“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”
Origine: A Handful of Dust
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it […]”
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“I had been there before; I knew all about it.”
Origine: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”
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
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
Simone Weil, The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees
Misattributed
“You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.”
Origine: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 1
"The Way to Fame" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?&id=FWxbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22there+is+a+great+deal+to+be+said+for+the+arts+for+one+thing+they+offer+the+only+career+in+which+commercial+failure+is+not+necessarily+discreditable%22&pg=PA9#v=onepage
This quotes The Queer Feet http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/Complete_Father_Brown/chapter3.html by G. K. Chesterton
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Letter to his wife (31 May 1942)
“It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn.”
Part 1, start of chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)