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Book Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
- I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
- I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
- We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,…
- If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it…
- Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
- She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book,…
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