I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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