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.
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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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 no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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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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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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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