Evelyn Waugh Quotes

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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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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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography

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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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