Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.

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

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

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

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

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