News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH
He 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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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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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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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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 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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGH