All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGHMr. 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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