We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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