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.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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