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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 war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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Boredom

Perhaps the worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. – Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

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Boredom

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

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Boredom

A yawn is a silent shout. – G. K. Chesterton

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Boredom

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candles light. – Billy Graham

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Angels

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

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Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Time