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

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Argue Get Keep Limitations Our Them

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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

Topics: Absolutely Anyone Civilized Creed Curious Every Paradise Promises Taste Thing Which Will

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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.

~Evelyn Waugh

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

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Alone Force Might Nations Other Use

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

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Before Except Fit Man Ready Seen Woman Youth

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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.

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Any Belief Commit Draws Full Himself Modern Need Person Religious Religious Belief Salary Species Who

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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Ideas Only Poetic

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

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Anything Away Get Manners Need Plain Pretty

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

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Absurd Class Division Dynamic Instead Ought People Sexes Static

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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.

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Bed Been Early Go More Needs Over Rest Sleep Why Year

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: October 28th, 1903

Died: April 10th, 1966

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