53 ordspråk av Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh föddes den October 20th 1903 och dog den 10 April 1966 - English writer
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 I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation. |
| If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be |
| If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be |
| If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. |
| 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.'' |
| In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. |
| In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. |
| Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. |
| It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. |
| Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. |
| Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. |
| My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. |
| 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. |
| Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. |
| Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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