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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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