Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGHHe was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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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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