Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)


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- I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

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

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

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- Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

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- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh - Work Suspended (1943)
- Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

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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.

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

Evelyn Waugh -
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh - Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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

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