I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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