"Words should be an intense pleasure just as……" — Evelyn Waugh
"Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker."
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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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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make…
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel…
— Jack Black
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
— Louise Brooks
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest,…
— Jimmy Carter
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was…
— Jimmy Carter
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A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine…
— Julian Casablancas
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will…
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