I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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