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John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
Le Jour des Triffides (The Day of the Triffids), 1951
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
Le Jour des Triffides (The Day of the Triffids), 1951
John Wyndham Citations
L’un des « enfants » de Midwich à propos de l’attitude des autorités et de la société à leur égard.
), 1957
John Wyndham: Citations en anglais
“Cruelty is as old as life itself.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 19 - p.200 [Joseph]
“The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 18 - p.182 [Eric]
“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
Source: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
Source: The Day of the Triffids
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
Source: The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham livre The Chrysalids
Source: The Chrysalids
“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”
John Wyndham livre The Chrysalids
Source: The Chrysalids
“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
Source: The Midwich Cuckoos
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”
John Wyndham livre The Chrysalids
Source: The Chrysalids
“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.”
John Wyndham livre The Chrysalids
Source: Ch 1 - p.391, 392 [Page numbers per the Michael Joseph "The John Wyndham Omnibus" hardback 1964. 'The Chrysalids' features at pp.383-532
“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
Source: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.220 [Zellaby]
“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]
“And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 19 - p.205 [Zellaby]
“Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.”
John Wyndham livre The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 9 - p.70 [Angela] [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1982 reprint.]
“We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.”
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 12 - p.204
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 10 - p.179
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
The Day of the Triffids (1951), Ch 10 - p.175
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 9 - p.162
John Wyndham livre Le Jour des Triffides
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 9 - p.155
“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”
John Wyndham livre The Secret People
Pt. II, Ch. II - p.64
Novels, The Secret People (1935)
