Evelyn Waugh citáty

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh byl anglický spisovatel, satirik a humorista píšící především tragické grotesky nemilosrdně kritizující tzv. vyšší společnost. Byl vrstevníkem Aldouse Huxleyho a přítelem Grahama Greena. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. říjen 1903 – 10. duben 1966  •  Další jména Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh nejznámější citáty

„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.“

Evelyn Waugh

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. <br class="br">Zdroj: Evelyn Waugh: Nečekaný návrat (Vzpomínky kapitána Karla Rydera). Vyšehrad, Praha 1974, str. 249 (překlad Jarmily Urbánkové) <br class="br">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.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

Evelyn Waugh

Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

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

Evelyn Waugh kniha Vile Bodies

Zdroj: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“Was anyone hurt?”

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."
First lines
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.”

Evelyn Waugh

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.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

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

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.

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“O God, make me good, but not yet”

Evelyn Waugh

Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Zdroj: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“To understand all is to forgive all.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“… for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”

Evelyn Waugh

Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Zdroj: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

“I can't bare you when you're not amusing.”

Evelyn Waugh kniha Vile Bodies

Zdroj: Vile Bodies

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”

Evelyn Waugh

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

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