When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGHOnce you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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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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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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They 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.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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