I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
EVELYN WAUGHWords have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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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 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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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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