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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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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small…
— Charles Lamb
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
— Jonathan Swift
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
— Samuel Johnson
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He talked with more claret than clarity
— Susan Ertz
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I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux…
— John Cleese
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
— Samuel Johnson
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not…
— John Keats
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If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
— Moliere
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
— James Boswell
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Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were…
— John Keats
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I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put…
— Nick Harkaway
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