Evelyn Waugh Quotes

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Evelyn Waugh

Profession : Author

Birth : October 28, 1903

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Evelyn Waugh

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

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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.

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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

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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.

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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

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

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

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

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