Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGH
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
EVELYN WAUGH