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Evelyn Waugh has 157 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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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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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a…
— Jane Austen
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
— Francis Bacon
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
— Honore de Balzac
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
— Sholom Aleichem
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The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
— Tommy Chong
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly…
— Eric Clapton
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
— Oscar Wilde
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What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I thought that…
— Jason Biggs
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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