"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."

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Evelyn Waugh

#Beautiful Quotes #Truth Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.”
“I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.”
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”

Source : Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.239, Routledge
“I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.”

Source : "The force is with him". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2002.
“Comparisons are odious.”
“If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.”
“The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the ÂŽfirst time has broken down. A new unity, however, has not yet emerged. We stand in this transitional period, this â€˜interregnumâ€™ which leaves its mark on every spiritual activity. The Conservative Revolution is conditioned by it, and at the same time sees itself as an attempt to overcome it.”
“Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.”

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