I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
EVELYN WAUGH
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
EVELYN WAUGH