„As far as the eye could reach, I found myself gazing on a surging sea of aunts. There were tall aunts, short aunts, stout aunts, thin aunts, and an aunt who was carrying on a conversation in a low voice to which nobody seemed to be paying the slightest attention.“
The Mating Season (1949)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse15
anglický autor 1881 - 1975Podobné citáty
— Ally Carter, kniha Only the Good Spy Young
Zdroj: Only the Good Spy Young
„My aunt is convinced I have a "flair for research."“
— Walker Percy, kniha The Moviegoer
This is not true. If I had a flair for research, I would be doing research. Actually I'm not very smart. My grades were average. My mother and my aunt think I am smart because I am quiet and absent-minded–and because my father and grandfather were smart. They think I was meant to do research because I am not fit to do anything else–I am a genius whom ordinary professions can't satisfy.
The Moviegoer (1961)
„And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.“
— Tiffanie DeBartolo American writer 1970
Zdroj: How to Kill a Rock Star
„Beat the plowshares back into swords; the other was a maiden aunt’s fancy.“
— Robert A. Heinlein, kniha The Puppet Masters
Zdroj: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 35 (p. 174)
„I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.“
— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Zdroj: Magic Burns
„Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.“
— P.G. Wodehouse, kniha The Code of the Woosters
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
„My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.“
— P.G. Wodehouse, kniha Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
— Jane Austen English novelist 1775 - 1817
Letter to niece Anna (1814-11-30) regarding characters in Anna's novel [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
„There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.“
— P.G. Wodehouse, kniha The Code of the Woosters
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
„One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda“
— Eva Ibbotson, kniha The Morning Gift
Zdroj: The Morning Gift
„Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.“
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
— L. Frank Baum, kniha The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Zdroj: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Ch. 1, "The Cyclone"
— Ellen Schreiber American writer 1967
Zdroj: The Coffin Club