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.
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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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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