Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
EVELYN WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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