"Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main……" — Evelyn Waugh
"Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do."
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153 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh has 153 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably…
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife…
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Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
— James Madison
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling…
— Byron Katie
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's…
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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst,…
— F B Meyer
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Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm.…
— Rita Rudner
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I…
— Alexander Fleming
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
— Ray Bradbury
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