I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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