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Midnight. I've got strange people in front of my house. I've got people sizing up my property all the time looking in. It makes me nervous.


Evelyn Smith

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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 Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Can...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Mande un angel a vilgilar te, pero regreso, porque Angeles no vigilan otros Angeles
EVELYN JIMENEZ Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i...
EVELYN WAUGH [A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge...
EVELYN WAUGH Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t...
EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
EVELYN WAUGH Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
EVELYN WAUGH Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker
EVELYN WAUGH I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes...
EVELYN WAUGH Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl...
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official...
EVELYN WAUGH When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty i...
EVELYN UNDERHILL He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into...
EVELYN FOX You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.
EVELYN KLEBERT It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.
EVELYN WAUGH The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, o...
EVELYN WAUGH On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...
EVELYN UNDERHILL It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slight...
EVELYN WAUGH They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always ...
EVELYN WAUGH It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
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