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.
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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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You 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.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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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.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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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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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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