Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
EVELYN WAUGH
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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