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Evelyn Waugh Quotes

English - Author | October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966

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.

Mind Enough Heaven Human Inspired

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

World Quotation Dying Vice Come

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Time Virtue Bored Punctuality

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.

God Simple Always Kingdom Throne

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

Aesthetic Desire Crime Expression

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Wisdom Rich Sharp Gifted Instinct

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Father Son Guest Host Happiest

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

Words Die Will Vocabulary Names

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Friends Cherish Ability Us Our Them

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art Human Two Destruction Construct

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Alone Action Worth Actions Your

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.

Son Parents You Possible Up Hold

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