English - Author | October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966
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.
Evelyn Waugh
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
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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.
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