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.
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 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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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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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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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 typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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