Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGHWords should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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 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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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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