Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGHI think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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.
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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.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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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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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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