An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
EVELYN WAUGHConversation 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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