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I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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The Conservative Party have never put the clock back a single second.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love, it kills art.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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She seemed to say "Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?"
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, this magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty."
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Assistant masters came and went…Some liked little boys too little and some too much.
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March 15th
Imperial Banquet for Welcoming the English Cruelty to Animals
MENU OF FOODS
VITAMIN A
Tin Sardines
VITAMIN B
Roasted Beef
VITAMIN C
Small Roasted Suckling Porks
VITAMIN D
Hot Sheep and Onions
VITAMIN E
Spiced Turkey
VITAMIN F
Sweet Puddings
VITAMIN G
Coffee
VITAMIN H
Jam
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Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.
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"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for, anyway?"
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Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.
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"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."
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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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'I couldn't understand why God had made the world at all...' I asked my bishop; he didn't know. He said that he didn't think the point arose as far as my practical duties as a parish priest were concerned..'
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy.... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.
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His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
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Lord Copper quite often gave banquets; it would be an understatement to say that no one enjoyed them more than the host, for no one else enjoyed them at all, while Lord Copper positively exulted in every minute.
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I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are
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Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.
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'... But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.'
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
October 28, 1903
Died:
April 10, 1966
(aged 62)
Bio:
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, known by his pen name Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books.
Known for:
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Decline and Fall (1928)
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Vile Bodies (1930)
The Loved One (1948)
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