A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
EVELYN WAUGHMy children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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