Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

Popular Topics
Gold, Girl, Scholar, Glory, Pregnancy, Talent, Life Is Good, Quite, Food, Poet, House, Fly, Teacher, Stories, Inspiration, Memorable, Willing, Smile, Loves, English, Pleasures Of Life, Culture, Songs, Knowledge, Religion, Justice, Soccer, Love, Inspiring, Nice, Secret, Beach, Thank You, Night, Thought, Brain, Kind, Evidence, Philosophy, Intelligent, Home, Snows, I Like You, Peace Love, Jesus, Once Upon A Time, America, Wisdom, Thinking, Hope
Evelyn Waugh

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life. . . These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

Irrecoverably, Save, Self, Unique, Zest
Same Author Quotes

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

Allows, Fish, Land, Line, Play, Unique

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Departure, Inalienable, Inexcusable, Metaphor, Writing

We are American at puberty. We die French.

American, Die, Dies, French, Puberty

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

New York, Mistake, Air, Inhabitants, City

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

Amusing, Bare, I Can
Similar Quotes