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John Wyndham Frasi e Citazioni
Incipit di alcune opere, Il giorno dei Trifidi, Marina Bulgheroni
John Wyndham: Frasi in inglese
“Cruelty is as old as life itself.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 19 - p.200 [Joseph]
“The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 18 - p.182 [Eric]
“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]
John Wyndham
libro
The Day of the Triffids
Origine: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
John Wyndham
libro
The Day of the Triffids
Origine: The Day of the Triffids
“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”
John Wyndham
libro
The Chrysalids
Origine: The Chrysalids
“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
Origine: The Midwich Cuckoos
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”
John Wyndham
libro
The Chrysalids
Origine: The Chrysalids
“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.”
John Wyndham
libro
The Chrysalids
Origine: Ch 1 - p.391, 392 [Page numbers per the Michael Joseph "The John Wyndham Omnibus" hardback 1964. 'The Chrysalids' features at pp.383-532
“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
Origine: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.220 [Zellaby]
“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]
“And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 19 - p.205 [Zellaby]
“Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.”
John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 9 - p.70 [Angela] [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1982 reprint.]
“We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.”
John Wyndham
libro
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 12 - p.204
“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”
John Wyndham
libro
The Secret People
Pt. II, Ch. II - p.64
Novels, The Secret People (1935)
