To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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 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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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