To understand all is to forgive all.
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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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