Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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 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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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