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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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