"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they……" — Evelyn Waugh

"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."

— Evelyn Waugh

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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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More Absurd Quotes

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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