The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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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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