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.
EVELYN WAUGHYou 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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