After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a 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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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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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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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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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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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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