Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
JOHN EVELYN A large whale was taken betwixt my land abutting on the Thames and Greenwich, which drew an infinite...
JOHN EVELYN I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, c...
JOHN EVELYN Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to...
JOHN EVELYN One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will d...
EVELYN WAUGH Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGH Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. ...
EVELYN GLENNIE I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I know...
EVELYN KEYES I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
EVELYN KEYES I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
EVELYN KEYES I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra inst...
EVELYN KEYES I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.
EVELYN KEYES I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy ...
EVELYN KEYES Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up y...
EVELYN LAUDER My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland ...
EVELYN GLENNIE Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
EVELYN WAUGH If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGH If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something that every factory worker does each day of ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
EVELYN WAUGH Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
EVELYN UNDERHILL One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
EVELYN WAUGH We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
EVELYN WAUGH That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
EVELYN WAUGH He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the ...
EVELYN WAUGH A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
EVELYN SCOTT If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatie...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL "Books," said St. Augustine after his conversion, "could not teach me charity." We still keep on thi...
EVELYN UNDERHILL The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and sol...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Christian history looks gloriou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Christianity is a religion which concerns us as ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 You can also offer your prayers, obedienc...
EVELYN UNDERHILL The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 Words are ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Faith is not a refuge from reality. ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Those who complain that they make no progress in...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 This, of course, is what religion is about: t...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Philip & James, Apostles I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Not borne on morn...
EVELYN UNDERHILL As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Ch...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé...
EVELYN UNDERHILL When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims ou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Many a co...
EVELYN UNDERHILL This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the worl...
EVELYN UNDERHILL His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for we...
EVELYN WAUGH Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
EVELYN WAUGH News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he'...
EVELYN WAUGH Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway,...
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outs...
EVELYN WAUGH Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGH You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I wou...
EVELYN WAUGH The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent ...
EVELYN WAUGH Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official s...
EVELYN WAUGH Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God...
EVELYN WAUGH Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It...
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable fo...
EVELYN WAUGH Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
EVELYN ASHFORD Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
EVELYN ASHFORD In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's ly...
EVELYN WAUGH Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGH Long-range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one d...
EVELYN WAUGH All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty i...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pande...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Adoration is caring for God above all else.
EVELYN UNDERHILL Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at ...
EVELYN GLENNIE Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
EVELYN UNDERHILL One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
EVELYN LAUDER News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news u...
EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a bene...
EVELYN WAUGH And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well...
EVELYN GLENNIE Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assump...
EVELYN GLENNIE If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloy...
EVELYN WAUGH Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
EVELYN LAUDER I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there'...
EVELYN ASHFORD I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, ev...
EVELYN LAUDER Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy cravi...
EVELYN WAUGH Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
EVELYN UNDERHILL My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularl...
EVELYN GLENNIE I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound a...
EVELYN GLENNIE I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big differe...
EVELYN GLENNIE The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...
EVELYN WAUGH To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded atten...
EVELYN KEYES I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendsh...
EVELYN WAUGH Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable...
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitabl...
EVELYN WAUGH Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be
EVELYN WAUGH Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I ...
EVELYN GLENNIE The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. No...
EVELYN LAUDER We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
EVELYN WAUGH I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just t...
EVELYN GLENNIE She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
EVELYN SKYE Imagine, and it shall be.
There are no limits.⁠⁠⁠⁠
EVELYN SKYE Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, bu...
EVELYN LAUDER To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being bl...
EVELYN SCOTT Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
EVELYN HENDRICKSON All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGH What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
EVELYN WAUGH Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds,...
EVELYN LAU It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable ...
EVELYN WAUGH Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opre...
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM And so we take a holiday, a vacation, to gain release from this bondage for a space, to stand back f...
EVELYN UNDERHILL I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel li...
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable...
EVELYN WAUGH After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat...
EVELYN UNDERHILL What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGH Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussi...
EVELYN GLENNIE There's sound everywhere—we just have to listen.
EVELYN GLENNIE My whole life is about sound. It's what makes me tick as a human being.
EVELYN GLENNIE Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
EVELYN GLENNIE Hearing is a form of touch. I hear it through the body, by opening myself up. Sometimes it almost hi...
EVELYN GLENNIE You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
EVELYN WAUGH I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter...
EVELYN GLENNIE We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
EVELYN WAUGH These gladiator shoes are actually made from rubber. They're a great way to be fashionable at the po...
EVELYN UNGVARI When I go out, I use a lip plumper to feel more seductive and feminine.
EVELYN COLEMAN All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day...
EVELYN WAUGH The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent ...
EVELYN WAUGH A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all
EVELYN SCOTT The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes b...
EVELYN GLENNIE You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
EVELYN WAUGH No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to H...
EVELYN WAUGH ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
EVELYN WAUGH [Change is] the only evidence of life.
EVELYN WAUGH I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ...
EVELYN WAUGH Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGH ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy...
EVELYN WAUGH To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH No one is ever holy without suffering.
EVELYN WAUGH The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty ...
EVELYN WAUGH If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ...
EVELYN WAUGH I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old...
EVELYN WAUGH Sweetheart. That's not the way you want to remember her.
EVELYN THOMPSON Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the play...
EVELYN WAUGH The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m...
EVELYN WAUGH For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday
EVELYN UNDERHILL A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
EVELYN GLENNIE I'd see him on downtown street corners, always with a camera. He'd be testing the light.
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y...
EVELYN WAUGH Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unatt...
EVELYN UNDERHILL They tore the covers off our antique cars and our classic cars because I'm sure there was a cat on t...
EVELYN HESTER Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
EVELYN WAUGH We have a good marker, non-invasively, and do see increased atherosclerosis -- also more plaque and ...
EVELYN TALBOTT By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spir...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 Love... makes the whole difference between an...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small th...
EVELYN UNDERHILL This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depen...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Can...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Mande un angel a vilgilar te, pero regreso, porque Angeles no vigilan otros Angeles
EVELYN JIMENEZ Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i...
EVELYN WAUGH [A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge...
EVELYN WAUGH Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t...
EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
EVELYN WAUGH Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
EVELYN WAUGH Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker
EVELYN WAUGH I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes...
EVELYN WAUGH Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl...
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official...
EVELYN WAUGH When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty i...
EVELYN UNDERHILL He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into...
EVELYN FOX You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.
EVELYN KLEBERT It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.
EVELYN WAUGH The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, o...
EVELYN WAUGH On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...
EVELYN UNDERHILL It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slight...
EVELYN WAUGH They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always ...
EVELYN WAUGH Here's an idea, how about you stop drinking? How about you go to rehab? Or you could just do us all ...
EVELYN SMITH You don’t want to threaten me sis.
EVELYN SMITH It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
EVELYN WAUGH Of course, I just assumed that the world was full of solo percussionists. It was only when I studied...
EVELYN GLENNIE The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human e...
EVELYN WAUGH I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel t...
EVELYN WAUGH Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.
EVELYN WAUGH After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat...
EVELYN UNDERHILL To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
EVELYN WAUGH What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them
EVELYN WAUGH