He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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