"No one could really hate a saint, could……" — Evelyn Waugh
"No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that."
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153 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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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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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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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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