Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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