I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGHHe was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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