Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHThey 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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