"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing……" — Evelyn Waugh
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot"
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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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More Boot Quotes
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one of 146 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter.…
— William S. Burroughs
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The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to…
— Unknown Author
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There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of…
— James Brady
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No one did what I did last season and for this I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq…
— Harry Reid
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and…
— John Taylor Gatto
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.…
— Unknown Author
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I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
— Barry Venison
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On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of…
— Unknown Author
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
— Robert Browning
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How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or…
— Kenny Smith
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