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Evelyn Waugh nejznámější citáty

„Největší a nejmilejší poklonu mi nedávno složil jeden Skot. Moje poslední kniha prý se mu tak líbila, že si ji málem koupil.“

Evelyn Waugh

„Mládež dneška by měla občas uvážit, že bude stářím zítřka.“

Evelyn Waugh

„Hřích je odhozený, zahnívající odpadek; stařec pokrytý lupusem, který se za soumraku belhá ke smetišti a zahnutou holí vyhrabává něco do pytle, něco k zpeněžení, a od kterého se všichni odvracejí s odporem.“

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Originál: (en) Thrown away, scrapped, rotting down; the old man with lupus and the forked stick who limps out at nightfall to turn the rubbish, hoping for something to put in his sack, something marketable, turns away with disgust.
Zdroj: Evelyn Waugh: Nečekaný návrat (Vzpomínky kapitána Karla Rydera). Vyšehrad, Praha 1974, str. 249 (překlad Jarmily Urbánkové)
Zdroj: Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited http://everythingreadable.blogspot.com/2008/03/brideshead-revisited.html na everythingreadable.blogspot.com

Evelyn Waugh: Citáty anglicky

“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”

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Evelyn Waugh

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

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

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Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

“He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters — Dickens and Balzac even — were flagrantly guilty.”

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Evelyn Waugh kniha The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Zdroj: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1

“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”

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Diary entry (5 October 1962)

“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”

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Evelyn Waugh kniha Vile Bodies

Zdroj: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”

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Evelyn Waugh kniha Brideshead Revisited

Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Was anyone hurt?”

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Evelyn Waugh kniha A Handful of Dust

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
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A Handful of Dust (1934)

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”

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

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”

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Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Zdroj: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

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Evelyn Waugh kniha Vile Bodies

Zdroj: Vile Bodies

“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”

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Evelyn Waugh kniha The Loved One

Zdroj: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Kontext: In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.