Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGHWords should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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