My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGHInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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