Evelyn Waugh Quotes
40 Evelyn Waugh quotes:
"Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography"
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Age And Aging Quotes
"Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."
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Action Quotes
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."
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Ability Quotes
English Author Quotes
"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
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Elderly Quotes
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
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Punctuality Quotes
"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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English Author Quotes
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
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English Author Quotes
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
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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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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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Manners Quotes
"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
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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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"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."
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"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
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"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
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"I put the words down and push them a bit."
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Words Quotes
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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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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Prayer Quotes
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