News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH
An 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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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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.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
EVELYN WAUGH