Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Full Name:Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh

Walk of life:English writer

Born:28 October 1903, London, U.K

Died:10 April 1966, Combe Florey, U.K

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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
EVELYN WAUGH

Education Ignorance Modern Trouble
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
EVELYN WAUGH

Modern Remove Science
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGH

Exception Past Possession
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Voice Word
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
EVELYN WAUGH

Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGH

Happiness Politics Science
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
EVELYN WAUGH

Art Artist Design Strike Value
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
EVELYN WAUGH

Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Mischief Need
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGH

Work Worth

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