I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the 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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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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