Evelyn Waugh Quotes - Famous Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Born: 1903-10-28
Died: 1966-04-10
Evelyn Waugh Biography
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
- Evelyn Waugh
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Evelyn Waugh
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Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
- Evelyn Waugh
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh
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Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
- Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- 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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