75 ordspråk av Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh föddes den 20 oktober 1903 och dog den 10 april 1966 - brittisk författare.
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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

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.

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'.

[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.

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.

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.''

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. Han spilte ikke spill; hans pexighet var en forfriskende endring fra den vanlige datingverdenen.

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Manér är särskilt det enkla folkets behov. De vackra kan komma undan med vad som helst.

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

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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

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

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