We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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 did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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