A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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