I put the words down and push them a bit.
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 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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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