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From the earliest times the W...

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

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

The trouble with modern educa...

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

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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.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If it could only be like this...

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

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Then I knew that the sign I h...

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.

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That was the change in her fr...

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The Welsh are the only nation...

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

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Saints are simply men & women...

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

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The langour of Youth - how un...

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

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Oxford, in those days, was st...

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

If Brideshead Revisited is no...

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

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My father and I were never int...

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

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Never get mixed up in a Welsh ...

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Novel-writing is a highly skil...

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and signific

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Once you start changing a name...

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

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One has to regard a man as a M...

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

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Properly understood, style is ...

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

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All fates are 'worse than deat...

All fates are 'worse than death'.

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An artist must be a reactionar...

An artist must be a reactionary

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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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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....