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.
EVELYN WAUGHThe 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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