You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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