Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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