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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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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let…
— Lord Byron
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred…
— Willa Cather
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
— George C. Marshall
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
— George Santayana
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Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country…
— Irving Kristol
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn…
— Unknown Author
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A dreamer born is a hero bred...
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and…
— Damien Hirst
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words…
— Jonathan Swift
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Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
— Unknown Author
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