Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
EVELYN WAUGHFor in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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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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