Evelyn Waugh Quotes


40 quotes:

"Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker"
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"If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be."
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"That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down."
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"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
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"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
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"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
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"We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit."
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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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"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
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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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"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
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"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances."
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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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"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
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"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
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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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"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
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"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."
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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"I put the words down and push them a bit."
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