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Wine is a bride who brings a ...

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world...

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The better sort of Ishmaelite...

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Self-sufficiency at home, sel...

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I never can understand how tw...

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

Free as air; that's what they...

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook f...

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

That's the public-school syst...

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If one's object is ascetic, i...

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

At first it was impressive, b...

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Medical science has oppressed...

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The Roman Catholic Church has...

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

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Limbo is the place. In Limbo ...

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

My theme is memory, that wing...

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Words should be an intense pl...

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Don't give your opinions abou...

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 240 quotes

Of the many smells of Athens ...

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

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I am annoyed to find myself c...

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

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The trouble with modern educa...

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

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I know very few young people,...

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

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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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...

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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...

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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....