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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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