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Evelyn Waugh Quotes
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure Id sooner go to my dentist any day. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Dont hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
I havent been to sleep for over a year. Thats why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesnt sleep. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
I put the words down and push them a bit. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
If we cant stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now its lyric verse. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid ; the player who is finally left with it has lost. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
News is what a chap who doesnt care much about anything wants to read. And its only news until hes read it. After that its dead. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
One forgets words as one forgets names. Ones vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Quotes Cloud
About Aesthetic Almost Construct Crime Dentist Desire
Destruction Efforts Expression From Fuss Human Physical
Pleasure Refrain Sleeping Sooner Symbol This Together
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