I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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 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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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