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 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 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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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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