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Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.




Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long."

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."

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




Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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."

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.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?"

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?




Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully."

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom."

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well."

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person."

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.




Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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."

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.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee."

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot"

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience."

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be"

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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."

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.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar."

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric."

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes."

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker."

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them..."

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up."

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself."

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist."

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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"

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed."

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "O God, make me good, but not yet."

O God, make me good, but not yet.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it."

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "We possess nothing certainly except the past"

We possess nothing certainly except the past



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy."

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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."

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.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair."

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them."

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."

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



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit."

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits."

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "We are American at puberty. We die French."

We are American at puberty. We die French.



Evelyn Waugh Quotes: "If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper."

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.