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.
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 splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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 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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