Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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