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Letter "E" » Evelyn Waugh Quotes
«I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.»
«That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.»
«Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«[A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off; the modern age in arms.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement''; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
«Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
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