The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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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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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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