If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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