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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh – angielski pisarz, najbardziej znany dzięki takim satyrycznym i w mroczny sposób humorystycznym powieściom, jak Decline and Fall , Vile Bodies, Scoop , A Handful of Dust i The Loved One , jak również poważniejszym utworom, takim jak Brideshead Revisited i trylogia Sword of Honour, które zabarwia jego konserwatywne i katolickie spojrzenie na świat.

Wiele z powieści Waugh opisuje brytyjską arystokrację i wyższe sfery, które ostro ośmiesza, ale które także silnie go przyciągały. Ponadto napisał opowiadania, trzy biografie, jedna z nich o jezuicie okresu prześladowań katolików, Edmundzie Campionie, i pierwszy tom niedokończonej autobiografii. Opublikowano także jego relacje z podróży oraz obszerne dzienniki i korespondencję. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Październik 1903 – 10. Kwiecień 1966  •  Natępne imiona Evelyn Arthur John Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh: 130 cytatów4 Polubienia

Evelyn Waugh słynne cytaty

„Lekarze nie leczą już ludzi, lecz ich reperują.”

Evelyn Waugh

„Jan Verney ożenił się z Elżbietą w roku 1938, ale dopiero w zimie 1945 zaczął nienawidzić jej zdecydowanie i żywiołowo.”

Evelyn Waugh

Źródło: Zadanie taktyczne, tłum. Małgorzata Szercha

„W okresie dojrzewania wszyscy jesteśmy Amerykanami. Umieramy jako Francuzi.”

Evelyn Waugh

Źródło: Stephen Clarke, 1000 lat wkurzania Francuzów, Wydawnictwo WAB, Warszawa 2012, s. 449, tłum. Stanisław Kroszczyński.

Evelyn Waugh: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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Evelyn Waugh

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

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

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Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

“He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters — Dickens and Balzac even — were flagrantly guilty.”

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Evelyn Waugh książka The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Źródło: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1

“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”

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Diary entry (5 October 1962)

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

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Evelyn Waugh książka Vile Bodies

Źródło: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”

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Evelyn Waugh książka Brideshead Revisited

Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Was anyone hurt?”

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Evelyn Waugh książka 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."
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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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Źródło: 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.”

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Evelyn Waugh książka Vile Bodies

Źródło: Vile Bodies

“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”

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Evelyn Waugh książka The Loved One

Źródło: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Kontekst: 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.

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”

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

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper…”

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

“O God, make me good, but not yet”

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Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Źródło: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“To understand all is to forgive all.”

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

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

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

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

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Źródło: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them -- a diminishing number in my case.”

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Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) p. 786

“That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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Evelyn Waugh książka Vile Bodies

Źródło: Vile Bodies (1930)

“I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.”

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“No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”

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Źródło: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

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

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Evelyn Waugh książka Vile Bodies

Źródło: Vile Bodies

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

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