Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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