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.
EVELYN WAUGHHe had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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