What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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