"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in……" — Evelyn Waugh
"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
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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 Arresting Quotes
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one of 35 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further…
— John Dewey
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Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for]…
— Peter McWilliams
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its…
— Arthur Balfour
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is…
— Micol Ostow
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
— Duane Chapman
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I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.
— Edward Conlon
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I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take…
— Willie Nelson
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It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural…
— Margaret Beckett
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I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone.…
— Chill Wills
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