O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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