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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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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
— William Blake
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
— Lana Turner
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I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
— Diane Keaton
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine…
— Polly Adler
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never…
— Jessica Biel
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The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old
— Groucho Marx
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
— Elizabeth Bennett
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I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
— Janet Reno
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
— Edna Ferber
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