O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
EVELYN WAUGHI regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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 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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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