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.
EVELYN WAUGH
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Of 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.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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