Logo
Quote by Evelyn Waugh
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

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

Category:
Prison
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Read Quote

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

Category:
Paradise, Utopia
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Read Quote

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
Dreams
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Boredom
category

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. – Charlotte Whitton

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

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

Category:
Boredom

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. – Guy Debord

Category:
Boredom

Random Quotes

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that Im going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. – Scott Ritter

Category:
Intelligence

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. – Arthur Conan Doyle

Category:
work

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late. – Antonio Gramsci

Category:
Personality