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.
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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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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