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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
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Advisable
Fingers
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.
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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.
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
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You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.
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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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... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.
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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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I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.
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If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
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That was the change in her from ten years ago that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence it was the completion of her beauty.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
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We are American at puberty. We die French.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
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