I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHI did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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