Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Giving Up, Despair, Needs

• Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Giving, Important

  Evelyn Waugh's review of Stephen Spender "World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender" in "The Tablet", May 5, 1951.

• The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

• If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Hate, Who I Am, Names

• Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, College, Years

  evelyn waugh (1929). “decline and fall”

• The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

  Evelyn Waugh

  Giving, Forgotten, Checks

• I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Thinking, Giving, Wicked

  Source: 100bookproject.tumblr.com

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