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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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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore de Balzac
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
— Samuel Butler
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
— George Farquhar
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth…
— Joseph Lyons
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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
— Ernest Hemingway
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O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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