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Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh

“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”

Source/Notes: Vile Bodies (1930)

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Evelyn Waugh

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

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Evelyn Waugh

“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.”

Source/Notes: The Tablet (9 May 1951)

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Evelyn Waugh

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

Source/Notes: Scoop (1938)

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Evelyn Waugh

“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.”

Source/Notes: Decline and Fall (1928)

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Evelyn Waugh

“I put the words down and push them a bit.”

Source/Notes: As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)

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Evelyn Waugh

“I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.”

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Evelyn Waugh

“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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Evelyn Waugh

“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”

Source/Notes: Decline and Fall (1928)

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Evelyn Waugh

“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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Evelyn Waugh

“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”

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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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“My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.”

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“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.”

Source/Notes: Scoop (1938)

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