Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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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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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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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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