Evelyn Waugh citations

Evelyn Waugh [ˈiːvlɪn ˈwoː], né à Londres le 28 octobre 1903, mort à Taunton dans le Somerset le 10 avril 1966, est un écrivain britannique ; il se caractérise par sa pratique très pure et raffinée de la langue anglaise et par son style sarcastique. Le critique américain Edmund Wilson voit en lui « le seul véritable génie comique paru en anglais depuis George Bernard Shaw ». Wikipedia  

✵ 28. octobre 1903 – 10. avril 1966   •   Autres noms Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh: Citations en anglais

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

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

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

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

Evelyn Waugh livre Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“Was anyone hurt?”

Evelyn Waugh livre 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.”

Source: 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)
Source: 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 livre The Loved One

Source: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Contexte: 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…”

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

“To understand all is to forgive all.”

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

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

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

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

Source: 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.”

Source: 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.”

Source: 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)
Source: 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.”

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

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

Evelyn Waugh livre Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

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

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

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