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.
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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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