We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
EVELYN WAUGHIf 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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