I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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