Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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.
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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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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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