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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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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
— Thomas Otway
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Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
— Rajneesh
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I was madder than a midget with a yo-yo
— Larry the Cable Guy
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Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
— George R. R. Martin
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The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing…
— Zell Miller
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Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody…
— Robin Olds
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To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to…
— Ken Kesey
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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average…
— Frank Barron
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I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.
— Craig Ferguson
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My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for…
— Lee Ryan
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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