Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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 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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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