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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

Category:
Paradise, Utopia
Author
Evelyn Waugh
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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
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Other Quotes from
Boredom
category

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. – Jules Renard

Category:
Boredom

Living, just by itself –what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredoms the usher, there all the time to spy on you… – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Category:
Boredom

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

Category:
Boredom

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Boredom

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. – Thomas Paine

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

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