"The anguished suspense of watching the lips you……" — Evelyn Waugh
"The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!"
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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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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has…
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience…
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may…
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I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as…
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The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Believe in miracles. I have seen so many of them come when every other indication would say that hope was…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to…
— Stephanie Perkins
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I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real…
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Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
— Richard Corliss
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Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for…
— Minor White
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In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront…
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