The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder frasi celebri
Origine: Il ponte di San Luis Rey, p. 26
Thornton Wilder Frasi e Citazioni
citato in Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, L'universo di Thornton Wilder, Selezione dal Reader's Digest, ottobre 1974
Carlo Marenghi, in prefazione
Il ponte di San Luis Rey, Citazioni sul libro
citato in Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, L'universo di Thornton Wilder, Selezione dal Reader's Digest, ottobre 1974
Origine: Idi di marzo, p. 151
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder: Frasi in inglese
“I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.”
The Ides of March (1948), sec. VIII, item 977, p. 34 http://books.google.com/books?id=8IgRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+hold+that+we+cannot+be+said+to+be+aware+of+our+minds+save+under+responsibility%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
Antrobus, in Act 3
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
Writers at Work interview (1958)
As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders
“Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.”
Vandergelder, in Act 1
The Matchmaker (1954)
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.”
New York Journal-American (11 November 1955)
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
The Eighth Day (1967)
“Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.”
The Eighth Day (1967)