Evelyn Waugh Quotes on Irony
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So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.'
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.' Diary entry (March 1964), after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
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As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit, or belief, they were called a Republic.
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'It is typical of Oxford,' I said, 'to start the new year in autumn.'