O God, make me good, but not yet.
EVELYN WAUGHHere I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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