“His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“It was announced that the trouble was not “malignant.”… It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”
Evelyn Waugh
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
Evelyn Waugh
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“That’s the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Evelyn Waugh
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Punctuality
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“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”
Evelyn Waugh
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Manners
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“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.”
Evelyn Waugh
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“Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.”
Evelyn Waugh
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
