Evelyn Waugh Quotes & Sayings

34 most famous Evelyn Waugh quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an English author who passed away on 10 April, 1966.

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“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”

“Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.”

“Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“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.”

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