Evelyn Waugh Quotes & Quotations

Evelyn Waugh Quotes

» I put the words down and push them a bit.

» In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

» Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

» 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.

» Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

» 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.

» We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

» Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

» I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

» Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

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