I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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