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Inspirational Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
- If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
- The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
- Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
- Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
- I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
- If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
- We possess nothing certainly except the past
- Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
- There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
- An artist must be a reactionary
- All fates are ‘worse than death’.
- I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.
- Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
- You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
- Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
- Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.
- I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
- He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
- To understand all is to forgive all.
- These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
- that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
- No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they…
- If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento