If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
EVELYN WAUGHOf the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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The 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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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