Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGHAlmost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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