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.
EVELYN WAUGHWords have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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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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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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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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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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