Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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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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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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