To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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 can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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