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It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year… - Evelyn Waugh

"It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn."

— 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 Autumn Quotes

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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it… — Orlando Bloom
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full… — Hal Borland
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is… — Hal Borland
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the… — Robert Browning
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. — Nick Cave
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. — William Allingham
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. — Backseat Goodbye
There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a… — Wumen Huikai
A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle… — Eric Sloane

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