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Evelyn Waugh quotes about time

English Author, Writer October 28, 1903 – April 10, 1966

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Julia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven knows what misconception of popular science. 'There's something chemical between them' was used to explain the overmastering hate or love of any two people. It was the old concept of determinism in a new form. I do not believe there was anything chemical in my friend. Evelyn Waugh
At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family. 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 and say, "Take me to Charles's unhealthy pictures." Well, I went, but the gallery after luncheon was so full of absurd women in the sort of hats they should be made to eat, that I rested a little--I rested here with Cyril and Tom and these saucy boys. Then I came back at the unfashionable time of five o'clock, all agog, my dear; and what did I find? I found, my dear, a very naughty and very... Evelyn Waugh
At the door fo the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another visit when you next "cross the herring pond".' 'I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American.' 'He's rather odd at times. Evelyn Waugh
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search. Evelyn Waugh
From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh quote: "She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things..."
She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to his attraction. Evelyn Waugh
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.''I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh quote: "You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and..."
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s..."
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed. Evelyn Waugh
It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points, and laid a field of mines across all but a few well-trodden paths, so that, more often than not, we can only signal to one another from either side of the tangle of wire. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes..."
Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes... Evelyn Waugh

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