I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
EVELYN WAUGHIts 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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