Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
EVELYN WAUGHMoney 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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