News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGHYou 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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