My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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 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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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