O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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