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It is a curious thing... that...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

There is a species of person ...

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 240 quotes

One forgets words as one forg...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

There are no poetic ideas; on...

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

You never find an Englishman ...

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Instead of this absurd divisi...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Professional reviewers read s...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Punctuality is the virtue of ...

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Manners are especially the ne...

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

He was gifted with the sly, s...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Almost all crime is due to th...

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

In the dying world I come fro...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Charm is the great English bl...

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

He wasn't a complete human be...

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

We possess nothing certainly ...

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The splendid thing about educ...

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get ...

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

News is what a chap who doesn...

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 240 quotes

We class schools into four gr...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Not everyone grows to be old,...

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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...

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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....