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Schriftsteller, "Auf der schiefen Ebene", "Lust und Laster", "Eine Handvoll Staub", "Kleiner Abendspaziergang", "Der Knüller", "Als das Reisen noch schön war" (England, 1903 - 1966).

Evelyn Waugh · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Evelyn Waugh wäre heute 120 Jahre, 5 Monate, 23 Tage oder 44.005 Tage alt.

Geboren am 28.10.1903 in London
Gestorben am 10.04.1966 in Taunton
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

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• Any who have heard that sound will shrink at the recollection of it; it is the sound of English county families baying for broken glass.

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• Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love, it kills art.

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• He was an innocent, affable man who had somehow preserved his good humour . . . throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

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• His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz-everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.

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• I am not I: thou art not he or she: they are not they.

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• I drink for it.

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• I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

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• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

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• I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house.

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• Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.

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• Is there any place that is free from evil? It is too simple to say that only the Nazis wanted war . . . Even good men thought that their private honour would be satisfied by war. They could assert their manhood by killing and being killed. They would accept hardship in recompense for having been selfish and lazy. Danger justified privilege.

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• Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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• Medicine should see to it that people die as old as possible still feeling young.

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• News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

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• Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

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• Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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• Randolph Churchill went into hospital . . . to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not 'malignant' . . . it was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

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• Remember that the Patriots are in the right and are going to win . . . But they must win quickly. The British public has no interest in a war that drags on indecisively. A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colourful entry into the capital. That is The Beast Policy for the war.

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