Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
EVELYN WAUGH
I 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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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