I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHThere’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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