There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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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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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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