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.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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 a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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