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All Quotes by author - Evelyn Waugh

" All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. "

" I put the words down and push them a bit. "

" I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. "

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

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

" Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. "

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

" Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. "

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

" Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. "

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

" 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. "

" Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. "

" Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? "

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

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

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