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Evelyn Waugh

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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


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


— Evelyn Waugh


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


— Evelyn Waugh


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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.


— Evelyn Waugh


#come #delicate #forgotten #god #into

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.


— Evelyn Waugh


#enough #heaven #horrors #human #human mind

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.


— Evelyn Waugh


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


— Evelyn Waugh


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


— Evelyn Waugh


#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

I put the words down and push them a bit.


— Evelyn Waugh


#down #i #push #put #them

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


— Evelyn Waugh


#being #cliches #i #i think #like






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John Waugh (English pronunciation: /ˈɑːθə ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən wɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) known as Evelyn Waugh was an English writer of novels biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. In 1902 he became managing director of Chapman and Hall publiEvelyn Waughrs of the works of Charles Dickens.

Arthur Evelyn St. This blow together with a growing dislike for the welfare state culture of the postwar world and a decline in his health saddened his final years although he continued to write. Waugh is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century.

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