O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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To understand all is to forgive 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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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