
two quotes, 16 July 1970; p. 77
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
Source: Dragonfly
two quotes, 16 July 1970; p. 77
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“Nature broke the mould
In which she cast him.”
Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.
Canto X, stanza 84 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Variant translation: Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Compare: "I think Nature hath lost the mould / Where she her shape did take; / Or else I doubt if Nature could / So fair a creature make." A Praise of his Lady, in Tottel's Miscellany (1557). Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey wrote similar lines, in A Praise of his Love (before 1547). Compare also: "Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, / And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan." Lord Byron, Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R. B. Sheridan, line 117. As reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922).
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“You may speak in your own defense, Tom,” said Aunt Agatha.
“She’s right, though; I embody those things.” He held out his hands, open. “I bring you change.”
Source: The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993), Chapter 21 (p. 281)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 152.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 253.
Source: Rigante series, Midnight Falcon, Ch. 5
“Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.”
As quoted in American Criminal Trials Vol. I (1841) by Peleg W. Chandler, p. 26
“Corpses are more fit to be cast out than dung.”
Fragment 96
Numbered fragments
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.