It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
EVELYN WAUGHWords should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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