"What is youth except a man or woman……" — Evelyn Waugh

"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"

— Evelyn Waugh

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153 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh has 153 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you…
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly…
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest…
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession…
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the…

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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. — Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much… — Francis Bacon
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes… — Russell Baker

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