You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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