Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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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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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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