I think I had been something of a nuisance. They thought if I had my hands full, I wouldn't bother them with whatever they were doing.


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I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy ...
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Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up y...
EVELYN LAUDER
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland ...
EVELYN GLENNIE
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
EVELYN WAUGH
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGH
If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something that every factory worker does each day of ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
EVELYN WAUGH
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
EVELYN UNDERHILL
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
EVELYN WAUGH
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
EVELYN WAUGH
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
EVELYN WAUGH
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the ...
EVELYN WAUGH
A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
EVELYN SCOTT
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN
If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatie...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
"Books," said St. Augustine after his conversion, "could not teach me charity." We still keep on thi...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and sol...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Christian history looks gloriou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Christianity is a religion which concerns us as ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 You can also offer your prayers, obedienc...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 Words are ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Faith is not a refuge from reality. ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Those who complain that they make no progress in...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 This, of course, is what religion is about: t...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Philip & James, Apostles I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Not borne on morn...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Ch...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims ou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Many a co...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the worl...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for we...
EVELYN WAUGH
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
EVELYN WAUGH
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he'...
EVELYN WAUGH
Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway,...
EVELYN WAUGH
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outs...
EVELYN WAUGH