Evelyn Waugh Quotes

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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.
• That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
• She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
• Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
• Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that…
• One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
• If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
• 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.
• I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
• Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as…
• Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
• Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and…
• One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the…
• 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…
• Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
• After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
• Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
• When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into…
• The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

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