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Only Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as…
- If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a…
- There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
- My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
- The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the…
- Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left…
- There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
- He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive…
- If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...
- [Change is] the only evidence of life.
- ...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…
- 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…
- News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle