I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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