Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGHYou don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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