Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.


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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
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
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
A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
EVELYN GLENNIE
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
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
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
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
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