O God, make me good, but not yet.
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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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