What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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.
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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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