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.
EVELYN WAUGHI 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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