Evelyn Waugh Short Quotes

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We are American at puberty. We die French.

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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

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There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

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Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.

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I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house…

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I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

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It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country.

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Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.

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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

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I do not aspire to advise my sovereign in her choice of servants.
On why he did not vote

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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

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His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

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I caught a thin bat's squeak of sexuality, inaudible to any but me.

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The Conservative Party have never put the clock back a single second.

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"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are

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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

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Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

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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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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.

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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen, paper, and no telephone or wife.

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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

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Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.

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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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