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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. - Evelyn Waugh



If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. - Evelyn Waugh



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



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. - Evelyn Waugh



Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. - Evelyn Waugh



Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh



Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. - Evelyn Waugh



That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. - Evelyn Waugh



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



Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. - Evelyn Waugh



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



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



In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. - Evelyn Waugh



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