I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHMoney 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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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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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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