To understand all is to forgive all.
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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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