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 WAUGHInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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 can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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