Evelyn Waugh Quotes

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

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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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Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

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His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement'' if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''

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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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Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

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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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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

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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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A decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, ... the Enemy was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off the modern age in arms.

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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 came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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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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Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop it being brought in from outside.

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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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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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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen

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When Lord Copper was right he said, 'Definitely, Lord Copper' when he was wrong, 'Up to a point'.

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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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