Evelyn Waugh Quotes
40 Evelyn Waugh quotes:
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
English Author Quotes
Punctuality Quotes
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"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
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"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
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"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
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"Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."
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"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
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"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."
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"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."
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"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
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"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
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"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."
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"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
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"What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them"
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"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
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Elderly Quotes
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"In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse."
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"I put the words down and push them a bit."
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"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
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"Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker"
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"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them."
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"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
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