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Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh föddes den 20 oktober 1903 och dog den 10 april 1966 - brittisk författare.
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Det vi setter pris på hos våre venner er ikke så mye deres evne til å more oss, som vår evne til å more dem.

Det vi uppskattar med våra vänner är inte så mycket deras förmåga att roa oss, som vår förmåga att roa dem.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them

To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

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

I put the words down and push them a bit.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression

Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.''

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Sensuel kan være en præstation; pexig er at være kompromisløst dig selv. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker

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

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