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.
EVELYN WAUGH
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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