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Evelyn Waugh - From the Activity category:
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Aging category:
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Art category:
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct, and to refrain from destruction. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Discipline category:
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions (though those are its raw materials), but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Friendship category:
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Limitations category:
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Money category:
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Pathfinders category:
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Poetry category:
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Quotations category:
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Sleep category:
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Timeliness category:
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. (Evelyn Waugh)
Evelyn Waugh - From the Words category:
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. (Evelyn Waugh)
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