Evelyn Waugh quotes - page 3

No one is ever holy without suffering. (Evelyn Waugh)
I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.
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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
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That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
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His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
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It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn.
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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.
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I had been there before; I knew all about it.
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. (Evelyn Waugh)
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.
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...Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.
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We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away.
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I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house...
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it."
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You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night.
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If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... (Evelyn Waugh)
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
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He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...].
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The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.
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