Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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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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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 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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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.
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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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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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