O God, make me good, but not yet.
EVELYN WAUGHWords have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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