I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I 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.
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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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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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