I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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 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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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