Evelyn Waugh - English Quotes

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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh

'I often think,' he continued, 'that we can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales!'

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It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

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Augustus Fagan, Esquire, Ph. D., Llanabba Castle, N. Wales, requires immediately junior assistant to teach Classics and English to University Standard with subsidiary Mathematics, German and French. Experience essential; first-class games essential...

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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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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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Any who have heard that sound will shrink at the recollection of it; it is the sound of English county families baying for broken glass.

Evelyn Waugh

Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh