To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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.
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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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I 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.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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