Evelyn Waugh Quotes



Best 9 Other Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

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

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

“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

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

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

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

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

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

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