We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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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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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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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 regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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