You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
EVELYN WAUGHThere’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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 great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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