A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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