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.
EVELYN WAUGHSometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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