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 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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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