Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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