Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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 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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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