If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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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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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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.
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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’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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