I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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