To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHNews is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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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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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