Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGHNews is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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