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.
EVELYN WAUGHPort 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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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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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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