He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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