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Words have basic inalienable m...

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I never can understand how two...

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Port is not for the very young...

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Oxford, in those days, was sti...

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Winston Churchill is always ex...

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

No one could really hate a sai...

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Then I knew that the sign I ha...

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I've always been bad. Probably...

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

For in that city [New York] th...

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If it could only be like this ...

If it could only be like this always Ђ' always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

One forgets words as one forge...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Anyone who has been to an Engl...

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

His courtesy was somewhat extr...

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 240 quotes

We can trace almost all the di...

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Limbo is the place. In Limbo o...

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

They are a very decent generou...

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I'm one of the blind alleys of...

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Enclosing every thin man, ther...

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Yes, cider and tinned salmon a...

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The trouble with modern educat...

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....