"He lay back for a little in his……" — Evelyn Waugh
"He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns. . . . He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods . . . endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy."
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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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Compassion is an alternate perception
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Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked…
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it…
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the…
— George Eliot
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and…
— James Taylor
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The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
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I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate…
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
— Howard Zinn
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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