The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHWe cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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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.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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