News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGHI 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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