Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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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 great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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