Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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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.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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