An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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