We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGHWords should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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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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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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