I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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