Evelyn Waugh Zitate und Sprüche
Evelyn Waugh: Zitate auf Englisch
“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
Evelyn Waugh buch The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Quelle: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1
“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”
Evelyn Waugh buch Vile Bodies
Quelle: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1
Evelyn Waugh buch Brideshead Revisited
Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh buch 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)
Quelle: 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.”
Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Quelle: 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.”
Evelyn Waugh buch Vile Bodies
Quelle: Vile Bodies
“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”
Evelyn Waugh buch The Loved One
Quelle: 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.
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“O God, make me good, but not yet”
Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“No one is ever holy without suffering.”
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
Evelyn Waugh buch Vile Bodies
Quelle: Vile Bodies
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Quelle: 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.”
Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
Evelyn Waugh buch Vile Bodies
Quelle: Vile Bodies (1930)
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
