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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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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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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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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