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.
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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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