I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
EVELYN WAUGHDon’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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