Evelyn Waugh Quotes

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.

Evelyn Waugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthBeautifulCityGrowing UpUp

The Marvel catalogue of 9,000 characters really is that rich. It isn't just a bunch of guys running around with capes and cowls who have secret identities and fight across the street from each other.

Jeph Loeb

FightRichStreetSecretJustWho

Harmonies are nice.

Maurice Gibb

NiceHarmonies

Without obsession, life is nothing.

John Waters

LifeNothingObsessionWithout

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

Anand Giridharadas

FamilyLearningHomeworkNeverFirst

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

Simon Cowell

EgoYouI CanToo MuchWayLittle

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

Tristan MacManus

AttitudeFocusFamousEasyLoseBuy

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

RM

LiveHappinessHappyPeopleBe Happy

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Mike Jackson

OverSoldierMonthOperationsMuch

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere

HappyLovedCannotMakeLoved One

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Don Young

GovernmentYouCountryCreatingJobs

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

Debi Gliori

TimeArtMyselfLieIdeasNight

I'm big on green veggies: arugula, spinach, and kale.

Shannon Sharpe

GreenBigSpinach

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