I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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