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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

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

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Paradise, Utopia
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Evelyn Waugh
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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Prison
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Evelyn Waugh
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Other Quotes from
Boredom
category

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Category:
Boredom

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Ivan Chtcheglov

Category:
Boredom

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

Category:
Boredom

One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but hes not boring. – Barbara Bush

Category:
Boredom

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I would like to dance. Not professionally, just when everyone else does. – Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot, 1997

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Dancing

I just want to do Gods will. And hes allowed me to go to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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God

Your friend has a friend; dont tell him. – Chinese Proverb

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Gossip

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet shell be constantly running back. – Horace

Category:
Nature