Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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