There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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 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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