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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. <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
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Evelyn Waugh kniha Brideshead Revisited
Part 3, near end of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Vile Bodies
Zdroj: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 2
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Brideshead Revisited
Part 1, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Part One, Chapter XII
Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Put Out More Flags
Zdroj: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1: Autumn, § 7
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Brideshead Revisited
Part 3, Chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“I put the words down and push them a bit.”
As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Author's note
Decline and Fall (1928)
“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall (1928)
“There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall (1928)
Letter to Nancy Mitford, May 5, 1954, cited from Mark Amory (ed.) The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 423
"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable" is sometimes attributed to Lord Chesterfield (British statesman, diplomat and wit, 1694-1773), but has not been found in his works.
“We possess nothing certainly except the past.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Brideshead Revisited
Part 3, start of chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Scoop
An oft-quoted example of William Boot's style. When first mentioned in the novel it is "splashy" and not "plashy", but this is a remembrance of another journalist; when Boot himself quotes it, he has "plashy".
Scoop (1938)
Evelyn Waugh kniha The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Zdroj: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Mr Prendergast, Part One , Chapter IV
Decline and Fall (1928)
“Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Vile Bodies
Zdroj: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1
“I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.”
Evelyn Waugh kniha Decline and Fall
Grimes
Decline and Fall (1928)
"Is Oxford Worth the Money?", Sunday Dispatch, 10 July 1938, page 12. Quoted in "The Sayings of Evelyn Waugh", edited by Donat Gallagher, Duckworth Sayings Series
