Giovannino Guareschi citations (8 citations)

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Giovannino Guareschi: Citations en anglais

“Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!”

Giovannino Guareschi The Little World of Don Camillo

Source: The Little World of Don Camillo

“Those were the days when there was a great deal of argument about that piece of international machinery known as the ‘ Atlantic Pact’, which may have owed its name to the fact that between words and deeds there lies the breadth of an ocean.”

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The Polar Pact
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

“But the young people of today are benighted creatures born with telephone numbers imprinted on their brains, and where passion is concerned they have about as much grace as a pig in a cornfield.”

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Thunder on the Right
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

“Minutes and seconds are strictly city preoccupations. In the city people hurry, hurry so as not to waste a single minute, and fail to realize that they are throwing a lifetime away.”

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The Dance of the Hours
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

“I was born near the Po and it is the only respectable river in all Italy. To be respectable, a river must flow through a plain because water was created to stay horizontal and only when it is perfectly horizontal does it preserve its natural dignity. Niagara falls is an embarrassing phenomenon, like a man who walks on his hands.”

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The Little World
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

“‘ Don Camillo, the system of teaching Christian charity by knocking people over the head is one that doesn’ t appeal to me,’ the Lord answered severely.”

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Horses of a Different Colour
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

“The party delegate was one of those gloomy, tight-lipped persons who seem to have been made for wearing a red scarf round the neck and a tommy-gun slung from one shoulder.”

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The Stuff from America
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

“In the valley a bicycle is just as necessary as a pair of shoes, in fact more so. Because even if a man hasn’ t any shoes he can still ride a bicycle, whereas if he hasn’ t a bicycle he must surely travel on foot.”

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The Bicycle
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

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