It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
EVELYN WAUGHTo know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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