29 Quotations by Evelyn Waugh
- 1. All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
- 2. Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
- 3. An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin ...
- 4. Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It ...
- 5. Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, ...
- 6. His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for we ...
- 7. I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendsh ...
- 8. I put the words down and push them a bit.
- 9. If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
- 10. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outs ...
- 11. If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to "a semi-official ...
- 12. In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's l ...
- 13. It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitabl ...
- 14. Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- 15. News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he' ...
- 16. Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable ...
- 17. One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- 18. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra ...
- 19. Other nations use "force"; we Britons alone use "Might."
- 20. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh Quotes by Power Quotations
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