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Evelyn Waugh Inspirational Quotes (111)

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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
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It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.
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You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I have no technical psychological interest it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
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From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.
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Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.
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I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
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