I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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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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.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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Of 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.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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