Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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