I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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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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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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