"You can't ever tell what's going to hurt…" — Evelyn Waugh
"You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people."
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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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Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
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I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other…
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By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on…
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Who could ever tell a story complete?
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get…
— Greg Egan
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If doctors ever tell you that you've "flipped out," don't believe them, and just keep on doing what you were…
— Jack Handey
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Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world…
— Billy Graham
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For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't…
— Jack Nicholson
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the…
— Thomas More
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Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.
— Sylvia Browne
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