I'll pray for you."
"That's very kind of you."
"I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: humor religion prayer rosary



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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: high-class-style lush-places



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You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: art beauty world paint



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I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great detail of the Flyte family. 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, Charles, it has killed you.'
[Anthony Blanche to Charles Ryder]

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: art charm england



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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: satire human-condition observation



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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.

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: god mercy



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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


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Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.'
'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: friends nice-people



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I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

Evelyn Waugh

Stichwörter: poets consumption broken-heart young-men brian-howard



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No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.

Evelyn Waugh


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