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.
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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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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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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