A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
EVELYN WAUGHNews is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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 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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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