You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
EVELYN WAUGHI prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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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 put the words down and push them a bit.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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