If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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