“Flora heredó de su padre, no obstante, una voluntad fuerte, y de su madre un tobillo delgado. Lo único que no se había visto afectado por tomar siempre su propio camino ni otro por los violentos deportes atléticos en los que se había visto obligada a participar, pero se dio cuenta de que ninguno de los dos era adecuado como material para ganarse el sustento.”
Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep.»
Fuente: Capítulo 1.
Citas similares
“¿Puede ser el Atlético campeón de Liga? Peores cosas se han visto.”
Sin fuentes
Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.»
Fuente: Capítulo 1.
Death in Venice
“Desnuda que no hay un ingenuo que vista una flor, sería como taparle la hermosura.”
“Ningún camino de flores conduce a la gloria.”
Fuente: Fábulas.
Fuente: "Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire". Fables; libro X; fábula XIV.
Fuente: [Goicoechea] (1952), p. 207.
“Lo único que no se ve es lo que está al alcance de la vista.”
