He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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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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Charm 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.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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