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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
— Honore de Balzac
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and…
— Tacitus
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The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
— Bryan Procter
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Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea.…
— George W. Bush
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a…
— Albert Einstein
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Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…
— Lillian Hellman
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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the…
— Otto Neurath
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You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,…
— Bernard Moitessier
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There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails…
— Dave Barry
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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
— G. Stanley Hall
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