I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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