I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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