Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGHIf a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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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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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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