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Evelyn Waugh
About Author: English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)
Quotes:It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
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