You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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