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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: Horace Walpole Lewis Carroll H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Walter Bagehot Samuel Johnson Terry Pratchett A. A. Milne Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
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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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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. 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 |
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