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Me Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
- Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that…
- I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
- When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into…
- Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him…
- 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.
- "What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told.…
- My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
- My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
- Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.
- These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
- Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came…
- I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut…
- Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
- ...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed…
- ...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course…
- O God, make me good, but not yet.
- But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last,…
- If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my…
- 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,…
- I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale