Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
EVELYN WAUGH
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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