"If a thing's worth doing at all, it's…" — Evelyn Waugh

"If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well."

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153 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh has 153 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you…
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly…
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest…
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession…
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the…

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

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