Evelyn Waugh Quotes

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

Evelyn Waugh

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• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Learn
  • Doors

• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• Democracy is not about one party dominating.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Dominating

• I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Down

• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Country
  • Parents

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• I think they have this impression that I'm this miserable cow who doesn't smile. But I'm actually quite the opposite ... I'm going to try and smile more for America

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Smile

• πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα

  

  Archilochus

• He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Death
  • Comedy

• Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• I love doing my own thing, and I won't let anything get in my way.

  

  Anne-Marie

• I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

  

  James St. James
  • School

• '...neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.'

  

  John Money
  • Power
  • Science
  • Faith

• And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Book
  • Read
  • Last Time

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Time
  • Think
  • Acting

• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Friends
  • Ability
  • Cherish