Frasi di Evelyn Waugh
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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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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

“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”

Evelyn Waugh libro A Handful of Dust

Origine: A Handful of Dust

“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

“I had been there before; I knew all about it.”

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

“Comparisons are odious.”

Evelyn Waugh libro A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust
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“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.”

Evelyn Waugh libro Il caro estinto

Origine: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 1

“There 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.”

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“No.3 Commando was very anxious to be chums with Lord Glasgow, so they offered to blow up an old tree stump for him and he was very grateful and said don't spoil the plantation of young trees near it because that is the apple of my eye and they said no of course not we can blow a tree down so it falls on a sixpence and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever and he asked them all to luncheon for the great explosion.
So Col. Durnford-Slater DSO said to his subaltern, have you put enough explosive in the tree?. Yes, sir, 75lbs. Is that enough? Yes sir I worked it out by mathematics it is exactly right. Well better put a bit more. Very good sir.
And when Col. D Slater DSO had had his port he sent for the subaltern and said subaltern better put a bit more explosive in that tree. I don't want to disappoint Lord Glasgow. Very good sir.
Then they all went out to see the explosion and Col. DS DSO said you will see that tree fall flat at just the angle where it will hurt no young trees and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever.
So soon they lit the fuse and waited for the explosion and presently the tree, instead of falling quietly sideways, rose 50 feet into the air taking with it ½ acre of soil and the whole young plantation.
And the subaltern said Sir, I made a mistake, it should have been 7½ not 75. Lord Glasgow was so upset he walked in dead silence back to his castle and when they came to the turn of the drive in sight of his castle what should they find but that every pane of glass in the building was broken.
So Lord Glasgow gave a little cry and ran to hide his emotions in the lavatory and there when he pulled the plug the entire ceiling, loosened by the explosion, fell on his head.
This is quite true.”

Letter to his wife (31 May 1942)

“It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn.”

Evelyn Waugh libro Ritorno a Brideshead

Part 1, start of chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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