There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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