"The only thing that it is advisable to……" — Evelyn Waugh
"The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers."
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Evelyn Waugh
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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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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
— Agatha Christie
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In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable…
— Sun Tzu
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These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go…
— Peter Ustinov
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions…
— William Banting
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Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to…
— Paul Feyerabend
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what…
— John Ruskin
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The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as…
— Alfonso Garcia Robles
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It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance…
— Joseph Story
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Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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