Evelyn Waugh Quotes

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Evelyn Waugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966

Topics

CuriousPromisesParadiseWillTaste

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

Meghan Markle

FriendBestBest FriendYouWell

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

Stephen Kinzer

WorkArtFreeLostWhereBeen

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

Roger Rees

TimeArtYouStudentActorTalk

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.

Robin DiAngelo

ChallengeFocusRacismAnalysis

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Judith Jamison

PerfectionPerfectEarthNobody

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

David Talbot

MoneyGrowBudgetYearMouthNews

As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.

Bozoma Saint John

EducationFutureParentsDoctorGo

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Bruce Willis

MorningI AmWake UpYesHeadUp

I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.

Woody Norris

FamilyYouMeetLuckyOutGoing

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

Willis Polk

CityPlanningLimitNo LimitFixed

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

Peter Hook

MusicDancePlayRockHardAnything

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

GodHopeMenSufferingBelieveMay

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