All Evelyn Waugh Quotes
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Evelyn Waugh
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
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