"He did not fail in love, but he…" — Evelyn Waugh
"He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]"
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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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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
— Christian Bale
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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites,…
— Clara Barton
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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to…
— Glenn Beck
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
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