"When I reached C Company lines, which were……" — Evelyn Waugh
"When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."
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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 Camp Quotes
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I…
— Buffalo Bill
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
— Tony Abbott
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become…
— David Bowie
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It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware…
— Tony Campolo
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On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish…
— Jimmy Carter
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When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things…
— Daniel Clowes
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it…
— Harlan Coben
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It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp,…
— Osbert Sitwell
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb…
— Winston Churchill
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Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening,…
— Sun Tzu
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