Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGHEvery Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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