Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
EVELYN WAUGHAfter all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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