"I can't bare you when you're not amusing." — Evelyn Waugh
"I can't bare you when you're not amusing."
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Evelyn Waugh
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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 Amusing Quotes
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
— David Bailey
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
— Aesop
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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