Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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 great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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