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I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.


Evelyn Ashford

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EVELYN WAUGH I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ...
EVELYN WAUGH Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGH ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy...
EVELYN WAUGH To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH No one is ever holy without suffering.
EVELYN WAUGH The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty ...
EVELYN WAUGH If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ...
EVELYN WAUGH I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old...
EVELYN WAUGH Sweetheart. That's not the way you want to remember her.
EVELYN THOMPSON Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the play...
EVELYN WAUGH The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m...
EVELYN WAUGH For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday
EVELYN UNDERHILL A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
EVELYN GLENNIE I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, c...
JOHN EVELYN Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to...
JOHN EVELYN I'd see him on downtown street corners, always with a camera. He'd be testing the light.
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y...
EVELYN WAUGH Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unatt...
EVELYN UNDERHILL They tore the covers off our antique cars and our classic cars because I'm sure there was a cat on t...
EVELYN HESTER Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
EVELYN WAUGH We have a good marker, non-invasively, and do see increased atherosclerosis -- also more plaque and ...
EVELYN TALBOTT By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spir...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 Love... makes the whole difference between an...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small th...
EVELYN UNDERHILL This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depen...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
EVELYN UNDERHILL