Top 100 Evelyn's Quotes
#2. Jason: Evelyn's not going to like it if you're rude to her friends.
Blake: They're her friends, not mine.
Rachel Hera
#3. If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn's place, can't I?
Georgette Heyer
#4. That was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.
Elizabeth Peters
#5. 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
#6. Puppies are cute. I'm fierce!"
"Yeah!" Evelyn snorted. "Romas says you're as fierce as a kitten."
"A kitten?" Kiera's tone grew more hurt. "I'm not afraid of him, just because he's twelve feet tall and can bench press me with his toes. It's not nice of him to say that
Lizzy Ford
#7. I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
Evelyn Ashford
#8. Love what you do. Even if it's not what you thought you'd be doing when you were a kid, love what you do. Eventually, it's going to kill you, and it would be a real pity if you died doing something you hate. - Evelyn Baker
Seanan McGuire
#9. There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
Evelyn Waugh
#10. Oh I'm sorry dear, because she's a spoiled brat and doesn't think about the consequences of her actions. Is that better?
Evelyn Smith
#11. But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.'
'It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries.
Evelyn Waugh
#12. Think people really want to know what's out there?"
"Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck
Lizzy Ford
#13. As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.
John Evelyn
#14. It's amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.
Tami Egonu
#15. She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
Evelyn Skye
#16. When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.
Evelyn Ashford
#17. You're human, that's what I like about you. Well not that you're a human, well yes that you're human but that you're a girl human.
Evelyn Smith
#18. Chantelle: The future's going to sneak up on all of you.
Evelyn: Good thing I like surprises.
Rachel Hera
#19. The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits ...
John Evelyn
#20. You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
Evelyn Waugh
#21. A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
Evelyn Underhill
#22. That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
Evelyn Waugh
#23. Evelyn puts one arm around Tobias and touches his face with the other, pressing her cheek to his. She says something to him. He smiles at her when he pulls away. Mother and son, reconciled. I am not sure it's wise.
Veronica Roth
#24. Can I call you Fozzie?"
"Can I call you Evelyn?"
"Not if you want me to answer."
"It's safe to say, the same goes for calling me Fozzie. I'm not a Muppet.
Renee Ericson
#25. Though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
Evelyn Underhill
#26. There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.
Evelyn Lauder
#27. Here's an idea, how about you stop drinking? How about you go to rehab? Or you could just do us all a favor and die.
Evelyn Smith
#28. Music is about communication ... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
Evelyn Glennie
#29. Do you want to change?"
"It's the only evidence of life.
Evelyn Waugh
#30. A smile bloomed across Vika's face. "A little peril has never stopped me.
Evelyn Skye
#31. But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.
Deborah Moggach
#32. My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.
Evelyn Glennie
#33. Adore having you. It's only Ian; he was saying tonight he wondered if you wouldn't feel more comfortable if you paid something ...
Evelyn Waugh
#34. I'll pray for you."
"That's very kind of you."
"I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.
Evelyn Waugh
#35. The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
Evelyn Waugh
#36. It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
Evelyn Waugh
#37. It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.
Evelyn Lauder
#38. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. Tallentyre
#39. Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a ... person ... when you want to be touched and the ... two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?"
Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.
Theodore Sturgeon
#40. Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
Evelyn Waugh
#41. Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Evelyn Glennie
#42. I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.
Evelyn Anthony
#44. Plus, if you think carefully, when you fall in love with someone not for her lookay, don't you think it's purer? It would last longer as physical aged but personality grows
Evelyn Rose
#45. I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.
Evelyn Lauder
#46. I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
Evelyn Glennie
#47. I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
Evelyn Waugh
#48. I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, you have to work hard to have it. And I want you.
Jaci Burton
#49. No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
Evelyn Underhill
#50. There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's.
Evelyn Waugh
#51. Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.
'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends.
Evelyn Waugh
#52. Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.
Evelyn Lauder
#53. Seriously, it's against the rules, a boy isn't a good enough reason to get into trouble.
Evelyn Smith
#54. Stephen D'Evelyn, a scholar working primarily on Hildegard's Symphonia, was a teaching assistant in my 2005 course on "Hildegard and the Gospels" and a valuable discussion partner for the translations we looked at in class.
Beverly Mayne Kienzle
#55. But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
Evelyn Waugh
#56. You seem to find everything banal." "it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find it applies to nearly everything.
Evelyn Waugh
#57. I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
Eddie Marsan
#58. I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.
Evelyn Ashford
#59. That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.
Evelyn E. Smith
#60. As for whether the magic in The Crown's Game is real, well . . . that depends. Do you believe in what you cannot see?
Evelyn Skye
#61. If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.
Evelyn Waugh
#62. Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed.
Evelyn Waugh
#63. 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
#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. Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.
Evelyn Waugh
#66. 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
#67. I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.
Evelyn Lauder
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn Waugh
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
Evelyn Waugh
#76. 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
#77. Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn.
Evelyn Smith
#78. Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it?
Evelyn Waugh
#79. If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
Evelyn Waugh
#80. Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken ... just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.
Fannie Flagg
#81. Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)
Sue Monk Kidd
#82. Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
Evelyn Waugh
#83. I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.
Evelyn Waugh
#84. I love you, Evelyn." Leaning in, he grazes my earlobe with his mouth. "For longer than you might have known."
"Likewise."
He chuckles against my cheek. "That's all you have to say? Likewise?"
"Just shut up and kiss me."
"I was getting there.
Renee Ericson
#85. It's not fair that you remember and I don't."
"No," he said, his voice hard, cold, in a way I hadn't heard it. He looked over at me, jaw set. "It's not fair that I remember and you don't, Evelyn.
Kylie Scott
#86. It's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them
Evelyn Waugh
#87. One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
Evelyn Waugh
#88. Shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.
Evelyn Keyes
#89. The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realised it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. It
Evelyn Underhill
#90. One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh
#91. They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen ... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
Evelyn Waugh
#92. News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Evelyn Waugh
#93. I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?'
'Would you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.'
'Is there a difference?'
'Oh dear, yes. He doesn't derive any strength from his fear, you know. It's wearing him out.
Evelyn Waugh
#94. There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.
Evelyn Glennie
#95. Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.
Charles: I don't know what that means.
Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.
Evelyn Waugh
#96. Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.
Evelyn Waugh
#97. I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
Evelyn Waugh
#98. It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
Evelyn Underhill
#99. Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
A.S. Byatt
#100. The look Evelyn gave to Marley was remarkably similar to her cat's: the casual disinterest of a predator with a full belly.
Harry Connolly
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