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.
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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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