If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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