The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Of 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.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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