To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
EVELYN WAUGHThere’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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 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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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