I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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