Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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