I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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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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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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