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

• I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Great

• My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

  

  Prince Royce
  • Trying
  • School
  • Friends

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

  

  Craig Charles
  • Up
  • Creepy

• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

  

  James Fenton
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Desire

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

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Friends
  • Ability
  • Cherish