The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHThere’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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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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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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