Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGHPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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