To understand all is to forgive all.
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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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