Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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