All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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