Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
Topics
Economic Security, Economic Insecurity, Financial Security, Financial Insecurity
Financial Independence, Fiscal Independence, Economic Independence
Financial Management
Money Management
Financial Planning
Spending Money
Old Maid
Financial Freedom
Money
Economic Philosophy
Financial Investment
Financial Literacy
Financial Loss
Financial Risk
Wealth Burden
Material Burden
Citations
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. Chapman & Hall, 1934.
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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.