To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHCharm 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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