I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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