What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHTo know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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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.
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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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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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