If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGHTo know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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