To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Its 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.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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