There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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