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Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Type: Author Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Date of Birth: October 28, 1903 Date of Death: April 10, 1966 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Evelyn Waugh Related Authors: Samuel Johnson Anthony Trollope Walter Bagehot H. G. Wells Thomas More Lewis Carroll Penelope Lively

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. Evelyn Waugh Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. Evelyn Waugh Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh I put the words down and push them a bit. Evelyn Waugh I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. Evelyn Waugh If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. Evelyn Waugh In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. Evelyn Waugh In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. Evelyn Waugh Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. Evelyn Waugh It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. Evelyn Waugh One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. Evelyn Waugh Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. Evelyn Waugh Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. Evelyn Waugh Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh 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. Evelyn Waugh There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. Evelyn Waugh There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. Evelyn Waugh We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. Evelyn Waugh We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Evelyn Waugh We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. Evelyn Waugh What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? Evelyn Waugh When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. Evelyn Waugh You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. Evelyn Waugh Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. Evelyn Waugh

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