Frasi di L. P. Hartley

“Come le donne, e altre classi depresse, i fantasmi si sono emancipati scrollandosi di dosso le loro limitazioni, e oltre ad essere in grado di fare molte cose impossibili per gli uomini, ne fanno anche molte altre che gli uomini da sempre sanno fare benissimo. Per quanto immateriali, sono in grado ormai di godere appieno i benefici della civiltà moderna.”

“"I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do.”

“I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, that I was one of them; and the conviction I had, which comes so quickly to a boy, that nothing in the world mattered except that we should win.”

“I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard men's voices calling each other in tones of authority and urgency, as if life had suddenly become more serious, as if battle were in prospect.”

“"But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully.
"They shot me," he answered, with what I took to be a smile.
"Yes, but that was in a war. Do they still shoot each other over ladies?" I imagined a carpet of prostrate women, over whom shots rang out.”