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We just don't know the truth behind the war, ... We're at a standstill. Why is it going on? We want to know why.


Evelyn Allen

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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