If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHThe great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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