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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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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