If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHI read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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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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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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