Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
EVELYN WAUGHOnce you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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