They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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 should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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