What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHI 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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