After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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