If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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