Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGHYou don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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