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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I…
— Diane Ackerman
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[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after…
— Fred Allen
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate,…
— Lord Byron
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
— Annie Dillard
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
— Henry Fielding
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At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble…
— Ann Landers
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
— George Santayana
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
— George Santayana
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