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.
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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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