I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
EVELYN WAUGHCharm 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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