To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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