There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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