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.
EVELYN WAUGHThe splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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