A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
EVELYN WAUGHEvery Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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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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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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 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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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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