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.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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