Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.


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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and pav...
EVELYN WAUGH
When mainstream science accepts this, we can put them in science classes.
JANET WAUGH
Look at the media we're attracting. This is not positive media, folks, this is negative media. We're...
JANET WAUGH
This is a sad day, not just for Kansas kids, but for Kansas. We're becoming a laughingstock not only...
JANET WAUGH
This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I ha...
JANET WAUGH
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
EVELYN WAUGH
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally...
EVELYN WAUGH
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest i...
EVELYN WAUGH
Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution ...
EVELYN WAUGH
The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, s...
EVELYN WAUGH
I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great details of the Fl...
EVELYN WAUGH
Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertai...
EVELYN WAUGH
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer g...
EVELYN WAUGH
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller a...
EVELYN WAUGH
My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi...
EVELYN WAUGH
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good soli...
EVELYN WAUGH
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

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EVELYN WAUGH
But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly ...
EVELYN WAUGH
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized ...
EVELYN WAUGH
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common exper...
EVELYN WAUGH
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memori...
EVELYN WAUGH
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills ...
EVELYN WAUGH
We will be closing 73 Toys ?R' Us stores in the United States only. This does not affect our interna...
KATHLEEN WAUGH
We knew that Amazing Amanda was going to be huge this holiday season. Our early read is that sales o...
KATHLEEN WAUGH
Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's ju...
EVELYN WAUGH
'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really t...
EVELYN ARTHUR ST. JOHN WAUGH