What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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