Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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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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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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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 regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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