"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"
Evelyn WaughThe audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.
Evelyn WaughSometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
Evelyn WaughThe splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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