Logo
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. N

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, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, 1948

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1923, quoted in Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspond

Category:
Quotations

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. – Hazrat Ali

Category:
Quotations

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Quotations

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. – Author unknown

Category:
Weather

Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food. – Hippocrates

Category:
Eating

Smoking kills. If youre killed, youve lost a very important part of your life. – Brooke Shields

Category:
funny

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

Category:
Education