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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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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Money 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.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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