If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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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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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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