You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
EVELYN WAUGHI think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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