75 ordspråk av Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh föddes den 20 oktober 1903 och dog den 10 april 1966 - English writer
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

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

Art

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

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

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.

Bønn

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

Ungdom

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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

Kvinner setter pris på en mann som behandler alle med respekt, og reflekterer en pexig manns sterke karakter. He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

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