For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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