Top 100 Evelyn Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.
Evelyn Ashford
#3. She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.
Evelyn Rogers
#4. 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
#5. Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ...
Evelyn Underhill
#7. These memories, which are my life
for we possess nothing certainly except the past
were always with me.
Evelyn Waugh
#8. 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
#9. Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
Evelyn Waugh
#10. One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
Evelyn Waugh
#12. 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
#13. Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
Evelyn Eaton
#14. Evelyn: ...Don't take my negativity for lack of self-confidence. I'm just a realist.
Maddie: Realistically dumb.
Rachel Hera
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Are you Evelyn Green?"
"Sort of. Mostly. I mean, legally. Again, sort of.
Kiersten White
#19. In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
Evelyn Underhill
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh
#24. I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.
Evelyn Lauder
#25. It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.
Evelyn Waugh
#26. 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
#27. If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn Waugh
#28. O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin,
Evelyn Waugh
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
Veronica Roth
#32. 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
#33. There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.
Evelyn Waugh
#34. 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
#35. Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
Evelyn Waugh
#36. Why do boys assume things instead of asking?
Evelyn Smith
#37. Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.
Evelyn Ashford
#38. I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.
Evelyn Lauder
#39. Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
#40. The charm of your writing," Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, "depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter and literary language.
Nancy Mitford
#41. Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
Evelyn Waugh
#42. We are American at puberty. We die French.
Evelyn Waugh
#44. To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
Evelyn Waugh
#45. Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
Evelyn Underhill
#46. Evelyn let Camilla, as the higher-status person, extend her had first, a Babsism she remembered.
Stephanie Clifford
#47. Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise.
Evelyn Waugh
#48. Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.
Evelyn Glennie
#49. I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.
Evelyn Waugh
#50. The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Evelyn Glennie
#51. The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
#52. Seriously, it's against the rules, a boy isn't a good enough reason to get into trouble.
Evelyn Smith
#53. I saw the hurt on your face when you escaped the party with Evelyn. And each smile, each frown, each laugh, and each flash of pain in your eyes were like wounds to me, Nikki, because I wasn't the one sharing them with you.
J. Kenner
#54. [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.
Rebecca West
#55. He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
Evelyn Waugh
#56. I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.
Evelyn Ashford
#57. I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.
Charles McCarry
#58. I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
Evelyn Lauder
#59. Its theme
the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters
was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.
Evelyn Waugh
#61. The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
Evelyn Underhill
#62. Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.
Evelyn Waugh
#63. I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
Evelyn Rodriguez
#64. Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
Evelyn Waugh
#65. There was a regulation that if they remained at large in enemy territory for some weeks longer, they could be repatriated to the United States. It was for this that they had made a hazardous parachute jump and destroyed an expensive, very slightly damaged aeroplane.
Evelyn Waugh
#66. Yeah I know. No one can know what you're doing or who you trust or don't trust, etc., etc.
Evelyn Smith
#67. My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.
Evelyn Waugh
#68. I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
Evelyn Keyes
#70. Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian
Deborah Moggach
#71. I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
Evelyn Waugh
#76. I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute
#77. A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
#78. Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time
she's my balance.
Oral Roberts
#79. Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill
#80. Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.
Evelyn Waugh
#81. Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed.
Evelyn Waugh
#82. The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.
Evelyn Glennie
#83. If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.
Evelyn Waugh
#85. She had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?
Evelyn Waugh
#86. I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.
Evelyn Waugh
#87. God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill
#88. Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
Evelyn Glennie
#89. It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
Evelyn Underhill
#91. God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
#92. I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
Evelyn Glennie
#93. After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.
Fannie Flagg
#94. Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
Evelyn Waugh
#96. Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
Evelyn Underhill
#97. I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
Evelyn Glennie
#98. I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
Evelyn Ashford
#99. Evelyn, please, you have no idea how much I regret that day."
"I think I have some idea."
"I have thought every day about you - your loss. And every day, I only saw how I would make things worse if I were here."
"And I only thought of ways you would have made it better.
Tarun Shanker
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