I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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 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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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