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Quotes from Evelyn Waugh


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

    Father | Son | Happiest


    My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

    Daughter | Affection | Seven


    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.

    Heaven | Inspired | Inventing


    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.

    God | Simple | Pray


    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.

    Truth | Beautiful | City


    Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

    Alone | Force | Nations


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

    Ability | Cherish | Amuse


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

    Manners | Table | Cliches


    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.

    Parents | Son | Possible


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

    Class | Division | Dynamic


    We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

    Temper | Discretion | Deceit


    When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

    Argue


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

    Desire | Crime | Expression


    I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

    Sleep | Early | Bed


    I put the words down and push them a bit.

    Words | Push


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

    Literature | Stop | Outside


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

    Woman | Youth | Ready


    Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

    Alone | Action | Worth


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

    Dying | Quotation | National


    There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

    Ideas | Poetic


       

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