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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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