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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 One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. |
| Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography |
| Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.'' |
| Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. |
| Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. |
| 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. |
| Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. |
| Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
| Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
| Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. |
| That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. |
| 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. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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