Frasi di Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett è stata una scrittrice britannica.

✵ 5. Giugno 1884 – 27. Agosto 1969
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Ivy Compton-Burnett Frasi e Citazioni

“Non è detto che la maggioranza abbia sempre torto.”

Origine: Citato in Focus n. 62, p. 181.

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Frasi in inglese

“Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.”

Ivy Compton-Burnett, quoted in Elizabeth Sprigge's The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett (New York: G. Braziller, 1973) p. 79.
Criticism

“Pushing forty? She's clinging on to it for dear life!”

A common misattribution first made by Nigel Rees in Quote…Unquote 3 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1983) as the result of a mishearing, and withdrawn by him in Cassell Companion to Quotations (London: Cassell, 1997) p. 179.
Misattributed

“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”

More Women than Men (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1933] 1951) p. 54.

“Un des plus grands romanciers que l'Angleterre ait jamais eus. ("One of the greatest novelists that England has ever had.")”

Nathalie Sarraute L'Ère du soupçon (Paris: Gallimard, 1956) p. 119; Maria Jolas (trans.) The Age of Suspicion (New York: George Braziller, 1963) p. 112.
Criticism

“The most original novelist now writing in English.”

V. S. Pritchett, quoted in Time, April 4, 1955. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866174-2,00.html.
Criticism

“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”

"A Conversation Between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain", in R. Lehmann et al. (eds.) Orion (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945) vol. 1, p. 2.

“Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth," said his cousin. "But we seem to have no other.”

Ivy Compton-Burnett libro Manservant and Maidservant

Manservant and Maidservant (London: Victor Gollancz, [1947] 1972) p. 5.

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