I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
EVELYN WAUGHThere’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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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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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