The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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.
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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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