Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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