What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHIts 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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 great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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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 can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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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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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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