For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
EVELYN WAUGHI 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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