He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
EVELYN WAUGHOf the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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