Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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