Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGHPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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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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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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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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