If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHYou don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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