If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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