News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGHI 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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