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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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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 human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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