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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

English Author Punctuality

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

Art Autobiography

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Class English Author

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. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

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.

Bed English Author

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

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

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

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

Books And Reading English Author

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Ability English Author

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement''; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.'' - Evelyn Waugh Quotes

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement''; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''

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