A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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 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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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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