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.
EVELYN WAUGHAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The 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.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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