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.
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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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