"In the dying world I come from, quotation……" — Evelyn Waugh
"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
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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 Dying Quotes
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one of 3,128 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
— Richard Baxter
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