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Letter "E" » Evelyn Waugh Quotes
«I put the words down and push them a bit.»
«Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.»
«When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.»
«My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.»
«Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker»
«Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.''»
«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.»
«What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?»
«In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
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