"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

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Source : In Observer 15 Apr. 1962

Evelyn Waugh

#Luck Quotes #Needs Quotes #Manners Quotes

“To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.”
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
“I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.”
“Virtue is its own punishment.”
“I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.”
“... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”

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