"The sky over London was glorious, ochre and……" — Evelyn Waugh
"The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles."
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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 Baubles Quotes
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one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Christmas is more than trees and twinkling lights, more than toys and gifts and baubles of a hundred varieties. It…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot…
— John R. Rice
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Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
— Marianne Moore
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Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull,…
— Eric Hoffer
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How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does…
— Karen Marie Moning
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We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
— Douglas Coupland
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