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You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.


Evelyn Klebert

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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 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 How can a profoundly deaf person become a musician?
EVELYN GLENNIE