I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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