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.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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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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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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