To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHThe human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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