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.
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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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