Top 40 Evelyn O'connell Quotes
#1. She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
Veronica Roth
#2. My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.
Evelyn Lauder
#3. You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh
#4. I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.
Evelyn Lauder
#5. It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.
Evelyn Waugh
#6. My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.
Evelyn Waugh
#7. If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn Waugh
#8. O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin,
Evelyn Waugh
#9. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.
Evelyn Waugh
#10. It's awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.
Evelyn Waugh
#11. My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.
Evelyn Glennie
#12. Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions.
Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.
Gena Showalter
#13. There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.
Evelyn Waugh
#14. I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.
Evelyn Waugh
#15. Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
Evelyn Waugh
#16. Why do boys assume things instead of asking?
Evelyn Smith
#17. At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...
Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
#18. Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)
Max Allan Collins
#20. Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: "If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product." My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you're not a lady? she says.
Flannery O'Connor
#22. The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.
Evelyn Ashford
#23. She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.
Evelyn Rogers
#24. A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ...
Evelyn Waugh
#25. Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ...
Evelyn Underhill
#27. These memories, which are my life
for we possess nothing certainly except the past
were always with me.
Evelyn Waugh
#28. What is a "canty day", Dennis?'
'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.'
'What is that?'
'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.'
'Oh.
Evelyn Waugh
#29. Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
Evelyn Waugh
#30. One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
Evelyn Waugh
#31. You rich kids are all the same. Daddy may give you everything you want but the world won't, and it's my job to teach you that.
Evelyn Smith
#32. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.
Elizabeth Heiter
#33. Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
Evelyn Eaton
#34. Evelyn: ...Don't take my negativity for lack of self-confidence. I'm just a realist.
Maddie: Realistically dumb.
Rachel Hera
#36. He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in Angostura Bitters and then rolled it in Cayenne pepper. This he put into a large glass which he filled up with champagne. The excellences of this drink defy description.
Evelyn Waugh
#37. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.
Evelyn Waugh
#38. Are you Evelyn Green?"
"Sort of. Mostly. I mean, legally. Again, sort of.
Kiersten White
#39. In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
Evelyn Underhill
#40. If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
Evelyn Underhill
