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Evelyn Waugh (Writer)

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

— Evelyn Waugh

One forgets words as one forgets names. Ones vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

— Evelyn Waugh words

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

— Evelyn Waugh desire

His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.Chapter 1

— Evelyn Waugh life

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

— Evelyn Waugh man

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

— Evelyn Waugh morning

I couldnt understand why God had made the world at all I asked my bishop; he didnt know. He said that he didnt think the point arose as far as my practical duties as a parish priest were concerned..Mr Prendergast, Part One , Chapter IV

— Evelyn Waugh god

News is what a chap who doesnt care much about anything wants to read. And its only news until hes read it. After that its dead.

— Evelyn Waugh dead

So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. Lets surprise her, said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.Ch. 3 : Spring

— Evelyn Waugh story

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