You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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