There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGHI think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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