Logo
Quote by Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which w

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Read Quote

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
Philosophical
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Read Quote

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
Summer
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Paradise, Utopia
category

We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. – J. A. Primo De Rivera

Category:
Paradise, Utopia

A fools paradise is a wise mans hell! – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Paradise, Utopia

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Paradise, Utopia

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

Category:
Paradise, Utopia

Random Quotes

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear. – Maria Shriver

Category:
Fear

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Intelligence

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. – Alfred Russel Wallace

Category:
thankful

In Thailands history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. – Bhumibol Adulyadej

Category:
History