You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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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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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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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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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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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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