I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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