I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHHe had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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