Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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