Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Evelyn Waugh

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Best
  • Football
  • Say

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • World
  • Children
  • Lost

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Chance

• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• 'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writer
  • Monday

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Try

• Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Space

• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Reading

• Without electricity, there can be no art.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Art

• The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

  

  Vanity
  • Simplicity

• Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Money
  • Game

• You could stand near him, listen to him speak, and feel as if you were in the presence of some wiser man, a true mullah. His uncles were the same. Rich, powerful men whose influence allowed them to profit from the war, not fight in it.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Men
  • War
  • True

• Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • Alone
  • Grandmother

• Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Character
  • Small
  • Daily

• Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • She
  • Together
  • Dying

• Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Alone
  • Actions
  • Determines