We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
EVELYN WAUGHO God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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 you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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 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 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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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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