Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGHAfter all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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