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.
EVELYN WAUGHWhat is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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