My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGHAnyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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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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