English - Author | October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Evelyn Waugh
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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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