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.
EVELYN WAUGHAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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