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.
EVELYN WAUGHMr. 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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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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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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