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.
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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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