All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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